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I teach English as a foreign language for prek-12 kids in South America.

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Blends /Clusters

What is a cluster or blend?

A consonant cluster (sometimes known as a consonant blend) is a group of consonants that appear together in a word without any vowels between them.

When reading clusters, each letter within the cluster is pronounced individually.

Blends can be at the beginning of the word, in the middle or at the end.

Ideas

Here you have some general ideas to teach blends with your children:

Name as many things that begins with.... (use the blend you are teaching or reviewing)
Say a word that rhymes with....
Does ......sound like ........?
Where is the sound.....in this word?
List words that ends with ....
Go on a .....sound hunt .
Can you name an animal that begins/ ends with .....?
Can you draw a fruit that begins / ends with ....?
Play "I spy a word that begins with..."
Make riddles using the blend you want to introduce or practise.
Write silly sentences beginning with that blend.

List of some blends/ clusters

**Some blends are linked to suggested activities**

BL	BR	CL	CR
Blocks Blind Blow Black Blank Blame Blizard Blueberries Blue Blink Blanket	Brush Brain Broom Brown Brick Breed Break Breakfast Brownies Bridges Bread Brush	Climb Clown Close Clifford Classroom Closet Cloth Clothes Clothespins Clap Clock Clover	Crawl Crown Crayon Crab Critters Crow Crackers Cricket Chrysanthemum
DR	FR	FL	GR
Drama Drawer Dried Drop Drizzle Drum Dry	Frog Freeze Friday Fresh Friend French Fries	Flower Fly Flea Flashlight Flakes Flip flap Flat Flavour Flag	Grandmother Grandfather Grounchy Grow Grey Green Grapes Grasshopper Crill Grass Grain

GL	KN	PL	PR
Glitter Glow Glimmery	Knit Knight Knee Knock	Planet Plane Plan Plain Plate Play Please	Present Pram Pray Prey Pretty Princess Prints Props Prompts
SC	SK	SL	SM
Scarf Score Scorpion Scope Scoop Scarlet Scary Scene Scissors	Skeleton Sky Skunk Skip Sketch Skate Skateboard Skin Skim	Slither Slow Slide Sleep Slime Slow Slug Slim	Smoke Smooth Smile Small Smell

SN	SP	SPR	ST
Snow Snowman Snickers Snacks Sneeze Snore Snowflakes	Spoon Spain Spell Spiders Spike Spinner Sponge Spatula	Spring Sprout Spray Sprinkle	Staple Sticker Story Stars Stone Stew Store Stick Starfish Stork
STR	SQU	SW	TR
String Strand Stream Strong Strawberry Street Straw Structures	Squash Squirrel	Swan Swim Sweet Swamp Sweater Swat Swing Swim	Trunk Tree Trip Trace Trash Troll
TW	SQU	SCH	WR
Tweet Tweezers Twenty Twelve Twelfh Twilight Twirl Twist Twinkle Two	Squash	Schedule Scholar School Schwa	Wrap