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Sw, St, Tw

When Leila goes to bed I SWing in her hammock and STargaze under the TWilight.

Initial Consonant blends

Initial Consonant Blends (ICB), also known as Consonant Clusters, may consist of a collection of 2 or 3 letters whose sounds are individually pronounced and fluently blended together at the beginning of a word.

List of ICB

bl                     br                     tw                    sc                    scr

cl                     cr                     ch                    sk                    spl

fl                      dr                     sh                    sm                   spr

gl                     fr                      wh                   sn                    str

pl                     gr                                             sp

sl                      pr                                             st

                        tr                                              sw

                        wr 

Examples of Words with Consonant Blends — Using two letters to make one sound.

  • Blue, blanket, blend, blind, bluebird

  • Climb, clay, clock, class, clam

  • Create, crab, creature, cry, crow

  • Draw, dress, dragon, dream, drink

  • Friend, fruit, free, from frozen

  • Glove, glad, glitter, globe, glue

  • Great, grape, grass, gravity, grandparent

  • Plant, please, place, play, plum

  • Promise, pride, prove, pretzel, price

  • School, schedule, scale, score, scribble

  • Sky, ski, skin, sketch, skunk

  • Sled, slim, slow, sleep, sleigh

  • Smell, smash, small, smart, smear

  • Snail, snore, snack, snake, sneeze

  • Splash, special, sport, speak, spirit

  • Story, street, strong, stop, stream

  • Swing, swamp, sweet, swan, swim

  • Train, truck, tree, treat, true

  • Twilight, twirl, tweet, twinkle, twist

The English language is a construction of different sounds.  When vowels and consonants blend together, consonant blends are born.

For example, take a peek at what Burt does while Duncan is sleeping:

While Duncan goes to bed Burt GRinds on guitar in CHills in his CRib. 

Both the letters "g" and "r" are consonants. When the word "grind" is pronounced a consonant blend materializes.

This distinct sound it is called a consonant digraph.  Sometimes three consonants are combined to form a sound.  This is referred as a consonant trigraph.  For example, Burt loves “striking” awesome Jimmy Page cords while Duncan sleeps.

 
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Gr, Ch, Cr

When Duncan goes to bed Burt GRinds on his guitar and CHills in his CRib.

CONSONANT DIGRAPH

A Consonant Digraph is when two consonants are combined to form a distinct sound.

Consonant trigraph

A Consonant Trigraph is when three consonants are combined to form a distinct sound.