Starting with S Blends

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Objective

I can read words with beginning s blends like "sp," "st," "sm," "sn," "sl," and "sw."

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Warm-up video

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Key concepts

3 concepts

  1. 1

    When two consonants are making their sounds right next to each other at the beginning of a word, it is called a consonant blend.

  2. 2

    The S blends covered in this video are SC, SK, SM, SN, SP, and ST.

  3. 3

    Examples of sight words that have one consonant sound and a vowel are he, we, and me.

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Practice

12 questions

1

Which of these words starts with the /sp/ blend?

2

Write a word that begins with the /st/ blend.

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Exit ticket

Quick comprehension check

Read the words below. Which word begins with the /sp/ blend? stag, spot, snap, slam

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