Consonant Blends: Reading Practice

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will practise reading words with consonant blends in sentences and short stories.

🌟 Let's Start

Now that you know consonant blends, you can read bigger words! Funke just read the word "black" on her friend's shirt. She sounded it out: bl-a-ck. Let us practise reading even more blend words.

📚 New Concept

Ending blends are also important! Words can end with two consonant sounds too:

• -nd: hand, band, sand, end, and
• -nk: bank, pink, sink, think, drink
• -nt: ant, tent, went, hunt, plant
• -st: best, fast, just, lost, must, rest
• -mp: camp, lamp, jump, stamp, dump
• -lk: milk, silk, walk, talk

Read these sentences with blends:

• "I clap my hands."
• "The frog can jump in the pond."
• "We drink milk at the camp."
• "I stand on the step and stamp my feet."
• "The best gift is a drum."

🎮 Let's Practice

1. Read: "The frog sat on a flat rock." Find the blend words.
2. Read: "I must stop and rest." Find the ending blends.
3. Read: "Clap and stamp to the drum."

Click to see answers

1. Blend words: frog (fr-), flat (fl-), rock (ends with -ck).
2. Ending blends: must, stop, rest.
3. "Clap and stamp to the drum." — cl, st, dr. Great blend reading!

💡 Remember

Blends can be at the beginning or end of a word. Read them smoothly — push the sounds together. You are reading longer words now!