Friendly blends drag and drop
by Karen Ivy Elliott © 2021
Price: $2.5 USD
Subjects: ela
Grades: 13,1,2
Description
When children learn to read initial blends in words their reading skills take off. It's the next step after learning short vowel sound patterns and can help children to read through words with long vowel sounds and two syllable words when they have pictures to guide them. Have fun with this no preparation drag and drop game, getting students to read through the blend options before dragging one of them to make the word. The words included are: black, blue, blender, brush, clock, crab, clip, crown, cloud, dress, drink, drum, dragon, frog, flag, flower, grow, green, grapes, glasses, plane, plant, spoon, sleep, stop, step, snow, snake, skirt, snail, spider, star, swim, train and tree. How to teach Friendly Blends We call common consonant clusters at the beginning and end of words friendly blends because they occur frequently. For example, the letter b is friendly with the letters l and r (e.g. black, blue, blend; brown, bread, bring). Other examples are: cr, cl; dr; fr, fl; gr, gl, pr, pl; sl, sn, sp, st; tr, tw. Friendly blends are not the same as consonant digraphs e.g. ch, sh and ng, which are letters taught together and which correspond to one phoneme. Get students to read and say the friendly blends alone: fr, fl, dr, bl, cr, sw, st, cl, br as well as in words. When they’re automatically able to blend these consonant clusters students have made great progress!
Acknowledgements
LLelementary font (Lovin Lit) Pond Kinder Regular for instructions Cover fonts: Miss 5th Posture Check; KP Morning meeting (see TpT store for all fonts) Illustrations are mine