SP or ST? Beginning-Blend Worksheet
Name six pictures, circle sp or st and write the beginning blend. A labelled checking page is supplied.

- Year levels
- Pre-school (Early Years), Years 1–2
- Pages
- 2
- File type
- Subject
- Phonics, Language Development, English
- Resource types
- Worksheets
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About this resource
This activity is great for students who are just learning their blends. This worksheet can help them to better understand how to identify the beginning sound of a word.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Identify whether a pictured word begins with sp or st
- Attend to the second consonant in an s-blend
- Write the opening cluster that represents the heard sounds
Teaching tips
- Pronounce the onset slowly, then blend it into the full picture name.
- Let pupils explain which second consonant they heard before revealing the checking page.
Skills covered
- S-blend recognition — sp and st are contrasted within one activity.
- Sound-symbol mapping — spoken clusters are represented with letters.
- Picture vocabulary — visual identification supplies the words being analysed.
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Core concepts
Core concepts
- SP blend
- ST blend
- Consonant clusters
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