Consonant Blend Words – Thin Rainbow Border

Consonant Blend Words – Thin Rainbow Border

These Consonant Blend Word Cards with a thin rainbow border are great for practising decoding consonant blend words through hands on activities and games. Our consonant blend word cards consist of initial blends CCVC words (eg. clap), CCCVC words (eg. splat), final blends CVCC words (eg. tent), and CCVCC words (eg. plant).

Features:

* Contains 156 consonant blend words. Initial blends include: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, sc, sk, sn, sp, st, sw, tw, scr, spl, str. Final blends include: st, sk, nd, nt, nk, mp, ld, lp, lt, lf, ft, ct, lk, xt, pt, sp.

Ideas for Use:

* Hide cards around the room for a consonant blends word hunt (students read the words as they find them).

* Hide in a sensory bin (students read the words as they find them).

* Knock down/target games. Attach the consonant blend word cards to objects that can be knocked down, eg. Stacking cups, ten pin bowling pins, magnetic tiles. Children use items eg. a small bean bag or a soft ball to knock them down. They read the ones they knocked down and collect them. If you have the appropriate space and if it’s safe, you could also use items such as a water gun (outdoors) or remote control car to knock down the objects.

* Tossing into containers. Attach cards onto a series of plastic bowls/buckets or in the holes on a muffin baking tray. Children then toss small objects (eg. Ping pong balls, small beanbags, large pom poms etc) into the containers. If they get it in they read the word on that container and collect it.

* Card games such as “Memory”, “Snap” or “Go Fish”. (Print duplicates of the words you are focusing on)

* Sticky Hand Game. Lay the cards either face up or face down (whatever you prefer) and the children try to slap the cards with the sticky hand and retrieve them. They read and keep the words they retrieve with the sticky hand.

* Path games. Make a path in the style of a track or stepping stones. You could just place the cards on the floor in a line with enough space to step between them, or you could make a more elaborate path. Ideas for making the track include using chalk, natural materials if outdoors, skipping ropes, ribbon, flat sturdy cushions, non slip mats etc. (always consider safety, risk and what is right for the children in your setting). Place word cards along the path for children to read as they move along the path in order to get to the end. Alternatively, you could make a “small world” path to move a toy along, reading the words as they go. Magnetic tiles work really well for this.

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For best results, print using “high quality” print settings and good quality paper (higher gsm) or card (check your printer’s specifications for how high a gsm it can print with).