Skill: final consonant blends: –st, –sk, –sp, –nd, –nt, –nk, –mp, –rd, –ld, –lp, –rk, –lt, –lf, –pt, –ft, –ct
Initial consonant blends (beginning) and final (ending) consonant blends appear throughout these lessons. Blends are consonants whose “sounds blends together”. In other words, each letter within the blend is pronounced individually, but quickly, so they “blend” together.
Read these words:
| -st | -sk | -sp | -nd | -nt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| best | ask | clasp | and | different |
| fast | desk | crisp | band | important |
| just | disk | cusp | blend | parent |
| last | dusk | gasp | end | plant |
| lost | husk | grasp | find | president |
| must | mask | lisp | kind | student |
| rest | risk | wasp | land | want |
| trust | task | wisp | stand | went |
| -nk | -mp | -rd | -ld | -lp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bank | camp | afford | child | gulp |
| drink | damp | bird | cold | help |
| junk | dump | card | fold | kelp |
| pink | jump | discard | gold | palp |
| sink | lamp | hard | held | pulp |
| shrink | pump | record | hold | scalp |
| thank | stamp | word | old | whelp |
| think | swamp | yard | wild | yelp |
| -rk | -lt | -lf | -pt | -ft | -ct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ark | adult | calf | accept | craft | act |
| clerk | belt | half | adopt | drift | direct |
| irk | difficult | elf | attempt | gift | expect |
| jerk | fault | golf | crept | left | fact |
| lurk | melt | gulf | except | lift | object |
| park | result | self | kept | raft | project |
| smirk | salt | shelf | slept | soft | respect |
| work | tilt | wolf | unkempt | waft | tract |
* The "l" in calf and half is silent.
1. Work with your assistant and create a few oral sentences. Include as many words as possible from the list above in each sentence.
2. Circle all the words you used in your oral sentences.
3. Did your sentences tell about something or ask about something?
Read these sentences.
- Is it best to ask for help if the task is too hard?
- Grasp the stand behind you and lift it onto the desk.
- I think I’ll discard this lamp and dump it at the junkyard.
- I will accept all the stamps except the one cut in half.
- Does the student know all the consonant blends?
- Please stand and show respect for our president.
- The kind child left her soft pillow on the aircraft.
- The accident wasn't my fault but the result was tragic.
- Is it difficult for a speech therapist to correct a lisp?
- Is that a wolf chasing the calf on the golf course?
- If the jerk smirks at the clerk, it will irk him.
Create two sentences. Include one or more words that end with –st, –sk, –sp, –nd, –nt, –nk, –mp, –rd, –ld, –lp, –rk, –lt, –lf, –pt, –ft, –ct in each sentence. Remember all sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period (.), question mark (?), or exclamation point (!). Do not mix upper and lowercase letters.
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Please illustrate your sentence in the space below or on the back of your paper.