Three Consonant Blends

About this resource

Teach the three-letter consonant blends with one color for each blend. This is 30 pages: a chart poster and a big poster for scr, spl, spr, str, thr and shr, word cards and desk strips to cut, two sort mats, three practice pages and everything a teacher needs to run it. Print what you need, or type into the pages first.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (30 pages)

• 7 big posters, one to a page: a chart of all six blends, then one poster each for scr, spl, spr, str, thr and shr. Each shows the word built in letter boxes (thr and shr share a box for the first two letters), six words with the blend colored, and a short sentence. The str poster has a strawberry picture.
• 24 word cards to cut, 4 for each blend (scrub, scrap, scream, screen; splash, split, splat, splotch; spring, sprint, spray, sprout; string, strap, street, stripe; three, throw, thread, thrill; shrimp, shrub, shrink, shred), on 12-card sheets with the blend in color, and again in ink-saver. Cards touch edge to edge, 3 across and 4 down, so each cut is one straight line.
• 8 desk strips to cut on each sheet, in color and in ink-saver, each showing all six blends with a word. 64 pieces on 6 cut sheets in all.
• 2 sort mats (scr, spl and spr; str, thr and shr) with 6 write-in lines for each blend.
• 3 practice pages, 30 items in all: trace the blend (12 words, the starting level), fill in the blend (12 sentences, three blends to choose from, the building level) and write your own (a word and a sentence for each of the 6 blends, the ready-for-more level).
• Teacher pages: Start Here with a which-page-when chart, five short steps to teach it, an answer key, a class roll-up, a filled example (an invented class), a note to families, a phrase bank of 20 starters in 5 groups, and a binder cover with spine and 4 tabs.
• Contents, terms of use and a thank-you page.

How To Use It

Hang the chart first and read the six blends together. Add one blend poster at a time: read the colored letter boxes, add the ending, read the six words. Cut the word cards and let children sort them on the mats. Use the color cards when children need the cue and the ink-saver cards when they should find the blend themselves. Then trace, fill in the blend and write. Give each child a desk strip and use the roll-up to see which words to practice again.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

Every student page has a big "My name" line, one short direction with a picture, and room to write. Each blend has its own color, and everything reads in black and white too. Cut pages come in a color set and an ink-saver set.

Type In, Or Print

The name lines, the sort mats, the write-your-own page, the class roll-up, the family note and every notes area are type-in fields in any PDF reader. You can also print any page and write by hand. Print at 100 percent with fit-to-page turned off. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten to 3rd grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, phonics and spelling centers, intervention groups, paraprofessionals, substitutes, and families who want to practice the same idea at home.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Classroom posters, cards and working paper for six letter patterns. People say some words differently in different places, and your own reading program decides how the blends are taught. It is not a full phonics program and it does not replace your own reading curriculum. Only the str poster, the cover and the binder page have a picture; the cards are words.