Beginning Blend Flashcards

Try these beginning blend flashcards as a tool to help your children master beginning blend sounds.

This is another free resource for teachers and homeschool families from www.freewordwork.com.

These beginning blend flashcards are designed to be another tool available for your phonics instruction.

If you are looking for additional phonics resources to help your children master sounds, these can be added to your classroom or home tools.

What are blends?

Unsure of what Blends are? Start here! (If you already know, skip to the end for your free download.)

Beginning blends are sounds that “blend” together to form a sound although children are able to stretch out the sound to hear both letters. You might also hear these letter combinations referred to as consonant clusters.

For these flashcards, I focused on blends for L, R and S. Each blend found in these pages has two letters.

Using these beginning blend flashcards

You will find these beginning blend flashcards in three formats.

The download includes:

each blend on a card
a picture for each blend on a card
a blend next to a picture on a card
cards containing each word

Some ideas for using these cards include:

Begin with the cards containing the blend and picture on one card. Continue by saying the name of the picture and then saying the blend sound.

Have your child name the picture on the card. They can then identify the blend they hear at the beginning. You might then have your child write the letters on a whiteboard so that they are matching the letters with the sound.

Once your child has mastered this task, they can try reading the blend without the picture clues. You might ask them to make a list of words they know beginning with the blend.

These cards can also be used as a matching activity. Have your child match the blend letters with the picture. Extend the activity by playing a go fish style game or a memory game with these cards.

You can download these free Beginning Blend Flashcards here:

Phonics Flashcards

Looking for additional blend work? Try these free resources:

Thank you to Whimsy Clips for the beginning blend clip art.

Cathy