4 Letter Words With Consonant Blends

Paired sound-out drills teach nine final consonant blends through short word families, leading into a 40-word reading list and a sort-by-ending activity.

An educational teaching resource from Guinea Pig Education entitled Final Consonant Blends - 4 Letter Words downloadable at Teach Simple.

Grades: Preschool, K–2
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Subject: Phonics, Language Development, ELA
Topic: Phonics, Learn to Read
Resource types: Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Preparation: Print ready

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About this resource

Sound out and and practise reading these 4 letter words with final consonant blends. (3 years +)

Match words with the same endings i.e bold and cold, hand and sand.

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In these packs, the child (or group of children) will be taught to recognise initial sounds as in 'b', 'd' and vowel sounds as in 'a' - c...a...t. They will practise running sounds together to make words. The sentence maker will help him or her to organise the words into sentences.

The packs are easy to use with clear instructions, for the adult to use with a child (or group of children).

The structured material encourages the child to practise word building and sentence making using phonic sounds. To make learning a really fun experience, the material contains word games, like snap and bingo. The child (children) can move on when the adult is confident the sounds have been learnt.

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The Pre Reader packs introduce the 26 sounds of the alphabet, the skills of sounding out words with phonics and blending phonic sounds to make three and four letter words. The child (children) should practise the material each day and move on only when the child is familiar with the material. The course is structured. Each new sound builds on the one that went before.

Tell the child (children) to personalise the drawings, adding to them, using their own ideas. Play the games. Repeat the exercises many times until they know the words. They should have fun learning to read.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Sound out and read four-letter words ending in a consonant blend by blending printed letter sounds together.
Recognize and read a 40-word list of words sharing final consonant blends (e.g., -mp, -nd, -nk, -ng, -st).
Sort words by their shared final consonant blend, grouping words with matching endings.

Teaching tips

Model the sound-blending method shown on page 3 (e.g., ch-ee-ky) before starting the word-pair practice, since the whole book depends on that blending technique.
Turn the 40-word reading list into flash cards as suggested, and use them for repeated practice sessions rather than a single read-through.
Use the sorting activity as a quick check for whether students can hear and identify the ending blend in a word, not just read it aloud.

Skills covered

Phonemic blending — students combine individual letter sounds to read whole words.
Final consonant blend decoding — students read and recognize words ending in blends such as -nd, -mp, -nk, -ng, -st, -ft, -lt, -lk, -ld.
Word sorting by sound pattern — students group words that share the same ending blend.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Which consonant-blend endings does this book cover?

Nine blend families: nd, lk, ld, ft, st, mp, lt, ng, and sp/nk, each introduced through matched sound-out word pairs before the longer practice list.

What comes after the sound-out word pairs?

A 40-word reading practice list (with a suggestion to make flash cards), followed by a sorting activity where students group words from that list by their shared ending sound.