Consonant Blends: Two Sounds Together
Learn to read words with two consonant sounds at the beginning.
🎯 What You'll Learn
You will learn to read words that start with two consonant sounds together, called consonant blends.
🌟 Let's Start
You can read words like cat and dog. But what about words like stop or clap? These words start with TWO consonant sounds pushed together. In stop, you hear /s/ and /t/ together at the start. These are called blends.
📚 New Concept
A consonant blend is when two consonant sounds are pushed together. You can hear both sounds.
Common beginning blends:
- bl: black, blue, bless, block
- cl: clap, clip, club, class
- cr: crab, cross, crop, crib
- dr: drum, drop, dress, drink
- fl: flag, flip, flat, frog
- fr: frog, from, free, fresh
- gr: grab, grin, green, grass
- pl: plan, plug, plum, play
- sl: slip, slim, slap, slug
- st: stop, step, still, stick
- tr: trip, trap, tree, truck
How to read a blend: Do NOT separate the sounds too much. Push them together smoothly: /s/-/t/-/o/-/p/ → stop.
🎮 Let's Practice
- Read: stop. What blend does it start with?
- Read: clap. What blend does it start with?
- Read this sentence: "I grab the drum and tap it."
Click to see answers
- stop starts with the blend st.
- clap starts with the blend cl.
- "I grab the drum and tap it." — grab starts with gr, drum starts with dr. Great reading!
💡 Remember
Consonant blends are two consonant sounds pushed together at the start of a word. You can hear both sounds: st in stop, cl in clap, dr in drum. Blend them smoothly!