Initial Consonant Blends: Find and Colour

In order to prepare children for more advanced blending work involving four phonemes, this set of twenty entertaining Find and Color worksheets for initial blends is a great way to introduce them orally to initial consonant blends and help them develop the necessary phonemic awareness.

The pack contains one sheet for each of the following blends:

tw, sw,

sk, st, sn, sm, sp

bl, cl. fl. gl, pl, sl,

br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr

On each worksheet, students have to blend the two letters and then search for objects that begin with that blended consonant. After then, only these objects should be colored; the others should remain uncolored.

Once they are given instructions, children can readily work on the sheets without assistance; nevertheless, for the most benefit, it is strongly advised that an adult work with special needs children.

It is necessary to introduce the idea of early blends in detail. Upon working with kids, particularly those who have special needs, my first preference is to teach them how to blend two consonant letters. Next, I focus on enhancing the kids’ phonemic awareness, which is the capacity to distinguish each blend of consonants at a word’s beginning.

Some students find this challenging, and it requires a lot of practice. The purpose of these worksheets is to help students hear the blend at the beginning of a word by first encouraging them to blend the two consonant letters. Encourage the kids to blend the letters in each initial blend by practicing as often as you can. Modeling, in my opinion, is essential.