Free Printable Blend Ladders: Beginning Sounds

Consonant blends are one of the areas you learn after some of the basic CVC words. These are when you put two consonants together and each makes its own sound.

The free consonant blend ladders help with learning those beginning sound blends. Each of the ladders is a fun way to work on learning the blends sounds and making words with different vowel sounds.

The blends consonant ladders are ways for kids to work on the blend sound of the two letters with vowels.

The blend ladder printables are a great addition to the blend printables on the site.

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What is the Consonant Blend?

Consonant blends are when you have two letters together and each still makes its own sound. So an example of a blend would be “bl”. You saw the b sound and the l sound when saying the word “blanket”.

The consonant blends are bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, & tr.

Consonant Blend Ladder Printables

These blend ladders work on one consonant blend at a time. You can see the blend and the vowels on the ladder below.

You have the following beginning blends ladder pintables: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, & tr.

Things to use with the Blend Consonant Ladder Printables

I always get asked what I use with my printables. And these are the items we have used with the blend ladders or mention in the post. This is to make it easier for you to find those products. The links are to Amazon.

• printer
• white cardstock
• laminator
• laminating pouches
• sheet protectors
• lacing letters
• dry erase markers
• Blends Bookmarks
• Small Blends Wall Cards
• Stop, Drop, and Flop in the Slop: A Short Vowel Sounds Book with Consonant Blends
• Bob Books Set 4 – Complex Words
• Meet the Phonics – Blends

Ways to use the Consonant Blends Ladder Printables

You are going to see a few ways to use these consonant blends ladders. You can always use what is best for you.

Preparing the Blends Ladder Printables

I like to print the blends ladders on cardstock and laminate these blend ladders to help them last longer.

You can laminate and then cut out the blend ladder cards or cut out the blend ladder printables and them laminate. They last longer in blends learning center when they are laminated.

Setting up a Constant Blends Ladder Center

One way that I set up the blends ladders for a center is to give them just one ladder and several lacing letters. You can have them make sets of words or take one letter at a time down the ladder.

A lot of times the l blend words are some of the first blend words kids work on. You might want to start with those first.

Write the Blends Ladders Words

If you have laminated the blend ladder printables, you can have them use dry eraser markers on the ladder to write the words.

I like to use the small blends wall cards to help with the different blend words. The Blends ladder and wall card set also has recording sheets you can use

Making Short Vowel Blend Words

If you want to work on short vowel blend words, you can use the blends bookmarks that has short vowel blend word options. It helps kids with vowel sounds and is great for kids in first grade.

The blends bookmarks can also help with long vowel words helps you find a few words to make on the ladder as well. And that might be a great second grade ladder activity.

What you fill find the Free Blend Ladders: Consonant Blends Printable

• One picture and blend at top
• The following consonant blends: bl blends, br blends, cl blends, cr blends, dr blends, fl blends, fr blends, gl blends, gr blends, pl blends, pr blends, sc blends, sk blends, sl blends, sm blends, sn blends, sp blends, st blends, sw blends, & tr blends.
• 5 vowels on each blend ladders
• 2 blends ladders per page
• 10 pages of printables

Click here to get your copy of the Free Blend Word Ladders!

What is in the Blends Wall Cards & Ladder Selling Set

The set has two options for the cards. You can get just a big picture and word ending or the multiple words on each wall card. Plus there is a new small and easy to print mini wall cards that are perfect for little hands and to use in centers.

What Is In The Blends Wall Cards & Ladder Selling Set contains:

• Blends: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tr
• Blends Beginning Sounds Ladders
• 2 Cards per page or 4 Cards per page options
• Blends Beginning Sounds Large with several words
• Blends Beginning Sounds Large with single image word ending
• Blends Beginning Sounds small with several words
• Blends Cards small with single image word ending
• 43 pages
• Price: $3

Here are some other Beginning Blends Printables For Kids

Blends Trace, Find & Color is part of the learning to read sets for tracing the words, finding the matching picture and coloring the picture. These are easy no-prep printable for working on blends.

Blends Wall Cards: Beginning Sounds has the blend picture, the blend letters and the matching word for all the blends.

Blends Coloring Pages has bl-, br-, cl-, cr-, fl-, fr–, gr-, gl-, pl-, pr-, sc-, sk-,sl-, sm-, sn-, sp-, st-, sw-, tr-. You have a trace the word or write the word option.

I Spy Blends Selling Set has 60 pages of blends with I spy for each blend and then mixed blends with l blends, r blends, and s blends.

Check out all the fun Blends Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.

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