This document provides materials to help children learn consonant blends and ending sounds through various worksheets and activities. It includes: 1) Worksheets that teach consonant blends like "bl", "st", "sk" through exercises identifying blends in pictures and words. 2) Activities that focus on ending consonant blends by matching words to pictures and filling in missing blends. 3) Stories with missing words that work on word families like "-at", "-ip", "-an" to build phonics skills. 4) Additional exercises on rhyming, alliteration and word building to reinforce beginning and ending sounds.

1. Building Block 7:
Consonant Beginning
and Ending Sounds
Help your child make phonics elements such as blends and ending sounds
second nature.

2. Table of Contents
Early Reading Building Block 7: Consonant Beginning and Ending Sounds
L Blends
Ending Consonant Blends
R Blends
Beginning Blends 2
Beginning Blends 1
End Blends
Beginning Blends 3
Consonant Blends: Endings
Ending Blends 3
Word Family Story: -at
Word Family Story: -ip
Word Family Story: -an
Word Family Story: -ug
Word Family Story: -ot
Rhyming Practice
Alliteration Activity
Games for Early Readers

3. A good reader must understand the
difference between vowel sounds and
consonant sounds, and how they each
function within the context of a word.
Beginning and ending consonant sounds
act as the framework of words, and
learning them helps early readers master
word building, pronunciation, and
spelling.
This set of printables will help your child
make key phonics elements like blends
and ending sounds second nature.
10 Building Blocks of Early Reading
building
Block 7:
CONSONANTCONSONANT
BEGINNING & ENDINGBEGINNING & ENDING
SOUNDSSOUNDS

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Blends are a group of two or three different consonant sounds.
For example when you say the word drink you can clearly hear the
sounds of both d and r letters. Fill in the blanks at the begining of
each word with the correct blends.
_____ock
_____oves
_____ue
_____ips
_____ag
_____ower
_____anket
_____eep
_____ock
_____eigh
12
3
6
9
Fun With Blends

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Consonant blends can also be at the end of a word. Like in camp,
friend and bank. Draw a line to match the words on the right column
to the blends on the left column to complete the each word.
sta
ta
pai
tru
bi
go
wo
ke
se
proje
rk
st
pt
ct
nt
lf
nk
mp
ld
rd
trust work paint project stamp
kept self tank gold bird
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Ending Blends

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Blends are a group of two or three different consonant sounds.
For example when you say the word drink you can clearly hear the
sounds of both d and r letters. Look at each picture below. Write
the name of the blend you hear at the beginning of each word.
Let’s Do Blends

7. Beginning Blends 2
Fill in the blanks with the correct consonant blend.
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oon ar
ake
oke
ock
ider
obe
ate
arf
ower
tr
st
sp
sm
br
bl
gl
sc
fl
sk
ick
amp
ee

8. Beginning Blends 1
Fill in the blanks with the correct consonant blend.
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ead og
oud
ant
ab
apes
y
ock ue
anket
ale
ush
um
gl br
dr
fr
cl
gr
bl
sc
fl
cr
pl

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Look at each illustration. What consonant blend matches the end of
the word? Color in the bubble next to the correct answer.
Ending Blends
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
mp
lk
lk
sk
nd
nk
st
nt
nt
ft
mp ft
mp nk
fr lk
sp nt ndsk

10. Beginning Blends 3
Fill in the blanks with the correct consonant blend.
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irrel
eam inkler id
ee ash ead
ay ew eet
awberry
scr
spr
str
squ
thr

11. Ending Blends 1
Fill in the blanks with the correct
consonant cluster.
Draw a line from the word to its picture.
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pla
ri
te
ra
ki
go
ld
ng
nt
ft

12. Ending Blends 3
Fill in the blanks with the correct
consonant cluster.
Draw a line from the word to its picture.
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wa
ma
la
mi
ba
sku
lk mp
sk sp
nk

13. at
This is .
This is his pet .
His cat is very and
loves to eat .
Pat cat fat rats
Read the story and fill in the missing “at” words from the word bank.
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14. ip
Mom gave me fries along with a
finished my fries, I tried to
the juice box to take a of
the juice. Mom was angry as I
sip dip rip lips
Read the story and fill in the missing “ip” words from the word bank.
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for breakfast today. When I
had juice all over my .
APPLE JUICE

15. an
This ‘s name is Sam.
He run very fast.
One day he could not find his blue
.
So he all around town to
man van can ran
Read the story and fill in the missing “an” words from the word bank.
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look for it.

16. ug
Ted drinks milk in a blue .
He is sitting on a .
There is a on the rug.
The lady is sitting on the jug.
mug rug jug bug
Read the story and fill in the missing “ug” words from the word bank.
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17. very little water. So he many
ot
It was a very day. The bird
was very thirsty. He found a
of water that had
stones and put them in the pot.
Soon the water came up and he
got of water to drink.
hot pot got lots
Read the story and fill in the missing “ot” words from the word bank.
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snack
that
pail
froze
groom
skin
said
toe
fun
split
tale broom done grin sit bed
glow nose flat black
It's rhyming time! Read the words in the box. Write a word from the
word box to rhyme with each word below.
wordbox
Rhyming Words

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brownies teeth sisters drain jiggle chaos
rapidly eggrolls hedgehog goodies
Alliteration is when you repeat the beginning sound in a group of
words. For example: My monkey made a mess.
wordbox
1. Tony lost two ________________.
2. Daniel's dog drank from the ____________________.
4. Becky baked _________________.
5. Cuddles the cat caused a___________.
6. Rudolph rose and ran ________________________.
7. Elephants enjoy eating_______________________.
8. Hannah has a hyper_________________________________.
9. Sara has six___________________________.
10. Grandma Gretel gave me great ________.
FunWithAlliteration

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