Blends Come as Endings, Too!

Blends Come as Endings, Too!

Unit 3, Lesson 5

We've learned about amazing topics and amazing words

• Spaceship

• Blubber

• Train

• Skeleton

• Crocodile

• Stegosaurus

Interesting endings & beginnings

• Spaceship

• Blubber

• Train

• Skeleton

• Crocodile

• Stegosaurus

They all start with blends

• Spaceship

• Blubber

• Train

• Skeleton

• Crocodile

• Stegosaurus

Today I want to teach you that blends - something that many kids think of as coming at the start of words - can also come at the endings of words. And some of the blends that come at the ends of words are different than those that come at the start of words

Sometimes at the END,

There is a blend.

st sound

MUST

What if I wasn't reading carefully?

There are blends that come at the beginning and the middle and the end of words. You've got that. But there are blends that come at the ends of words that I bet non of you have ever studied. They are new to you.

PINK

Open Ended

Can you think of another word that has the same ending as pink?

BENT

Open Ended

Can you think of another word that has the same ending as bent?

CAMP

Open Ended

Can you think of another word that has the same ending as camp?

It's not just these three ending blends to be alert for when you get to the ends of words, so you can make letter smoothies. There are even more ending blends.

• land

• melt

• hold

It is really important to be on the lookout for two-consant combinations - at the start of words, in the middle of words, and at the end of words.

You know that sometimes two consonants make a digraph and those two letters make one sound: /sh/, /ch/, /th/, and /wh/. But other times, those two consonants make two sounds and we need to make a letter smoothie and blend those two sounds together to help us to read the word. This is something important for you to remember as you do all your reading work.