BEGINNING BLENDS

bl
black bless bliss blood
br
brass bread brim broke
cl
clap clip clone club
cr
crab creep crisp crown
dr
drag dress drop drug
tr
trap tree trim truck
fl
flag flee flip flow
gl
glad gleam glim glue
gr
grass greed grill grow
pl
plan please plot plum
pr
pray press print proof
sl
slap sleep slit slot
sm
smart smell smile smoke
sp
spam spell spit spoke
st
stamp steel stir stop
 ENDING BLENDS
-st test rest most rust
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sk
ask task desk risk
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nd
band send find pond
-nt rant went mint hunt
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nk
bank rank wink monk
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m
lamp crimp jump trump
p

-rd card herd bird word

-ld bald child wild mold
-lp scalp help gulp pulp
-rk bark perk pork work
-lf half elf wolf gulf
-pt apt kept accept script
-ft raft left lift loft
-ct fact tact elect strict
Short Vowels Digraphs
A digraph is a single sound that is represented by two letters.

ai – rain, stain, said, bait

ay – play, day, way, stay
aw – claw, paw, saw, law
ea – head, read, great, deal
ee – feed, seek, sheep, seen
ei – vein, leisure, receipt,
deceive
ie – field, believe, thief, friend
oa – boat, loan, soak, road
oo – book, hoop, stood, food
ou – youth, tour, cousin, soul
ow – sow, tow, know, show

Trigraphs
air – hair, fair, pair, stair
ear – hear, bear, pear, fear
eer – beer, deer, steer, peer
eau – beauty, bureau, plateau,
beau
eir – their, weird, weirdo
eou – gorgeous, nauseous,
advantageous, outrageous
iou – gracious, ambitious,
 cautious, precious
oar – boar, soar, coarse
oor – door, poor, floor, moor
our – four, pour, tour, your
Vowels are long with no silent vowels
around
‘e’ – me, she, we, he, be,
‘i’ – light, fight, high, thigh, plight
‘o’ – no, cold, bold, sold, throw

‘ ei’ sounds like long ‘a’, long ‘e’,

long ‘i’, short ‘e’
‘ei’ sounds like long ‘a’ – weight,
neighbour,
vein, freight, foreign
long ‘e’ – seize, either, neither
long ‘i’ – height, heist
 short ‘e’ – weird, their, leisure

Vowels change to long ‘u’ and long

‘e’
‘e’ – chew, few, stew, threw
‘o’ – do, to, who, through
‘oo’ – proof, fool, racoon, moon, toot
‘i’ – fiesta, fiend, field, pizza

R Controlled Vowels
ar or er ir ur
car horn her bird burn
jar born letter first curl
star corn tiger birth turn
bar short helper dirt fur
dark storm taller stir hurt
farm torn after skirt surf
bark door bigger third curb
start store nerve firm nurse
sharp form germ shirt return

Variant Vowels
good should could
moon argue dawn
past rogue barbecue
crunch pause laugh
claim foot avenue
 Low Frequency Vowel and
Consonant

aid choice awful

great sleigh chief
right coin speed
knight wrong wreck
knife sign knob