Articles tagged with: adjacent consonants

Consonant Blends – Speaking and Spelling

Posted on 12th October 20226th December 2022 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties and tagged adjacent consonants, blending difficulties, how to teach blending, synthetic phonicsLeave a Comment

Synthetic Phonics programs now talk of ‘consonant blends’ or ‘adjacent consonants’, but what are they? Why is it that the letters ‘bl’ in the word ‘black’ are adjacent consonants while ‘ck’ are not? Speech and language therapist, Hema Desai explains the difference and suggests fun, multisensory activities to embed learning. As a speech and language […]

Now I get why children find pronouncing consonants harder than vowels….

Posted on 19th April 201513th September 2016 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Synthetic Phonics and tagged adjacent consonants, consonants and vowelsLeave a Comment

Read this comprehensive article from Spelfabet about the differences between consonant sounds and vowel sounds in the English language. http://www.spelfabet.com.au/?s=consonants+and+vowels Thanks to Susan Godsland from www.dyslexics.org.uk for flagging this up.

Adjacent consonants – why children need practice

Posted on 24th March 201513th September 2016 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Synthetic Phonics and tagged adjacent consonants, phonic games1 Comment

Many children struggle when reading words with adjacent consonants. These are words which have two consonants side by side within a word, e.g. f l a g. The leap from 3 sound words (e.g. h a t) to 4 sound words (e.g. l i m p) is very difficult for many beginner and struggling readers. […]

The importance of skills practice when learning to read

Posted on 26th April 201416th September 2016 in Approaches to Teaching Reading and tagged adjacent consonants, blending, decodable books, segmenting1 Comment

Learning to read, initially, has two components: 1. knowledge – learning the graphemes and the sounds they represent 2. skills – learning to blend sounds into words and segment sounds for spelling Many teachers offer lots of fun ways to learn the graphemes. They do this in step-by-step progression starting from the simple graphemes progressing […]

New Workbook for Dandelion Launchers – sneak preview

Posted on 4th March 201217th January 2017 in Our News, Reading Resources and tagged adjacent consonants, CCVC words, CCVCC words, consonant blends, consonant clusters, CVCC wordsLeave a Comment

We are delighted to announce that our new Dandelion Launchers workbook for Units 8-10 is in the last stages of production and will soon be available. This workbook focuses on adjacent consonants. To find out why this may be a useful resource for your pupils click here

What are adjacent consonants?

Posted on 1st December 201116th September 2016 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Synthetic Phonics and tagged adjacent consonants, blends, CCCVC, ccvc, ccvcc, consonant blends, consonant digraphs, CVCC, final blends, initial blends, VCC, what are adjacent consonants?Leave a Comment

Synthetic Phonics programmes now talk of ‘adjacent consonants’. What are adjacent consonants? Why is it that the letters ‘bl’ in the word ‘black’ are adjacent consonants while ‘ck’ are not?

Tricky adjacent consonants

Posted on 4th October 201016th September 2016 in Reading Difficulties, Synthetic Phonics and tagged adjacent consonants, blending, blends, final blend, initial blendLeave a Comment

We have found that lots of children are OK blending 3 sound words but have difficulty blending 4 and 5 sounds words with adjacent consonants (CVCC, CCVC and CCVCC words). Dandelion Launchers series now has 12 new books which tackle this reading skill. With no more than 10 words of text on each page, and 4 […]