PL or PR? Picture Blend Practice
Name plate, princess, planet, present, pretzel and plant, then choose and write pl or pr. A completed page supports checking.

- Grades
- Kindergarten–Grade 1
- Pages
- 2
- File type
- Subject
- Phonics, Language Development, ELA
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Ontario expectations
- B2.4 — use phonics knowledge
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About this resource
This worksheet is a great way for students to practice identifying words that begin with the PL and PR blends. By looking at the pictures and determining which beginning sound begins the word, students will get valuable practice with these important phonics skills.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Distinguish /pl/ from /pr/ at the beginning of a pictured word
- Select and print PL for plate, planet and plant
- Select and print PR for princess, present and pretzel
Teaching tips
- Say plate, princess, planet, present, pretzel and plant aloud before learners circle a blend.
- Check the printed letters as well as the circled PL or PR choice.
Skills covered
- Initial-blend discrimination — learners listen for PL or PR in six named words
- Phonics-to-print mapping — learners connect each spoken onset with its two-letter spelling
- Letter formation — learners copy the selected blend onto a response line
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Ontario curriculum
Ontario curriculum expectations
Ontario expectations
- B2.4 — use phonics knowledge and phonemic blending to read words, and phonemic segmentation to spell phonetically regular words, in isolation and various text contexts
Core concepts
- PL and PR blend practice
- Initial consonant blends
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