Visual/Consonant Blends

Cook-Up Words:

Take butcher paper and cut out a design of a bowl. Then draw lines to make it look like you were seeing 1/2 of the bowl. Above the bowl, use more paper to design a hand-held blender that looks like it is sticking in the bowl. On the blender, put various single consonants. In the bowl, put the blends attached to little velcro patches (for easy removal). Off to one side, make a "recipe" card that asks for nonsense items (words) that would required a blend to finish them. (like 1 cup of __end) Put the word (without the blend) on cards with a little piece of velcro before it so the kids could sort and attach the right blend to finish the word. Change the "word" cards often so they got practice with making lots of different words.

Resource:  Teachers Net

Title: Word Blending

One way I teach it is this:

I make the blend letters on a card and put it on a sentence strip holder. Then I have the endings on other cards. Take bl for example.

bl ack bl ue bl ouse bl ow bl iss .........

You can also just use paper and put the blend on top for them to see and then write the endings as a whole word.

bl

black

blue

blouse

Of course picture cards are great visual aids for the kids to see and then spell the words out.

Resource:

K.H., Kindergarten teacher

Okoboji Elementary School

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Title: Shopping Trip

Supplies Needed: Several paper grocery bags; A shoe, loaf of bread, some thing shaped like a star, some flour, and other grocery related items that begin with consonant blends; Index cards and markers.

Methods: Before class begins, tape a half of an index card on the back side of each grocery item. Mark on this card the specific consonant blend the name of that item uses. (Ex: “br” on the loaf of bread) Put all the items in the grocery bag. Tell the students that you have just gone on a shopping trip, and you need them to help you write down the starting sounds for all of the things that you’ve purchased. Pull out the first item. Ask, “What sound does this start with? Shoe…Sh...Sh? Let’s check and see!” Then turn your item over and show the students the letters on the back.

Ask them “What letters come together to make that sound? What other words make that “sh” sound?

Continue with the rest of the items in your bag!

Title: Word Ladders
Idea: This activity only requires you to write letters on paper squares ahead of time. Use a different color of paper for the consonant blends to help them stand out.The teacher can create whatever words needed.
This activity allows students to build a series of words by changing one consonant sound in each word to create the new word.
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