Kindergarten Words That Start With Blends worksheets

About this worksheet

A beginning blend contains consonant sounds that sit next to each other while each can still be heard. Kindergartners often record only the louder sound, turning flower into fower or star into tar. This worksheet teaches children to slow down at the beginning and give every sound its own letter. Support practice uses a few familiar, very different blends. Standard practice widens the blend bank, and challenge practice adds wrong answers that share a letter with the right one, though never two blends that sound almost the same.

Items alternate between circling the picture that starts with a blend and choosing the two letters that start a pictured word. Every spelling question shows a picture, so your child never has to read the word. Watch whether your child adds a vowel between the consonants, such as saying suh-top for stop. Model the opening sounds close together, then let the child repeat them. A final smooth reading of the completed word confirms that no sound was dropped, reversed, or added during spelling.

What your child will learn

• Hear every consonant in a beginning blend
• Match a blend to the two letters that spell it
• Find the picture that starts with a chosen blend
• Check that no opening sound is missing

Common Core standard: RF.K.2.C