Consonant Blends Worksheets – Beginning & Ending Blends

Practice consonant blends with printable worksheets for beginning blends, ending blends, blend recognition, word building, and phonics activities for kindergarten and primary students.

Phonics blends worksheets help students practise consonant combinations where each individual sound can still be heard. Common examples include bl, cl, fl, st, sk, tr, gr, and pl. Students can work on recognising blends, reading words containing them, completing missing blends, sorting words, and spelling words.

Blends can be practised at the beginning or end of words, depending on the student's level. Printable blends worksheets can combine pictures, word lists, matching exercises, word building, and writing practice to give students several ways to work with the same sound pattern. Compare with digraph worksheets, then reinforce using blending worksheets, CVC words worksheets, phonics reading practice, phonics activities, letter sounds worksheets, phonics posters, and phonics flashcards.

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Blends are groups of consonants that appear together while each consonant keeps its own sound.
Examples include bl, br, cl, cr, fl, fr, st, sk, sl, tr, and gr.
In a blend, each letter generally represents its own sound. In a digraph, two letters work together to represent one sound.
Beginning blends occur at the start of words, such as st in stop or br in brush.
Ending blends occur at the end of words, such as nd in hand or mp in lamp.