1st Grade Consonant Blends worksheets

About this worksheet

A consonant blend is two consonants side by side whose sounds are both heard, as in frog, clock and star. Children often drop one of them when they read or write, saying fog for frog. On this worksheet each box shows a picture with its first two letters missing, and your child says the picture's name, listens for the first sounds and circles the blend that starts the word.

The wrong blends do not sound like the right one, and the pictures are not labelled, so the child has to say the word. Support, standard and challenge sheets use different pictures. Stretch the blend as you say it: fffrog.

What your child will learn

• Hear two consonant sounds at the start of a word
• Match a blend to a picture's name
• Tell blends like fr, cl and st apart
• Read and spell words that start with blends

Common Core standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.B