Consonant Clusters Pronunciation
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Students build up words with three consonants at the beginning and end by adding sounds to shorter words, to make pronunciation easier and make sure they don't add syllables.
Lesson Plan Content:
Three-sound consonant clusters word building practice
Take turns pronouncing all the words on one line below, making sure you keep the same number of syllables when you pronounce each version. (All but two have just one syllable).
Three-sound initial consonant clusters to build up and pronounce
- ray/ pray/ spray
- rap/ trap/ strap
- rip/ trip/ strip
- ’roo/ crew/ screw
- reed/ creed/ screed
- rang/ prang/ sprang
- rate/ trait/ straight
- roll/ troll/ stroll
- wash/ quash/ squash
Three-sound final consonant clusters to build up and pronounce
- gif/ gift/ gifts
- sick/ six/ sixth
- tech/ Tex/ text
- whirl/ world/ worlds
- fill/ film/ filmed
- fall/ fault/ faults
- kill/ kiln/ kilns
- hole/ hold/ holds
- cam/ camp/ camps
- temp/ tempt/ tempts
- hundred/ hundredth/ hundredths
- thousand/ thousandth/ thousandths
- pan/ pant/ pants
- lap/ lapse/ lapsed
Do the same thing with the words below, this time making the three (real English) words yourselves by cutting two sounds off the word given, adding one of those sounds back on, then pronouncing the word given, e.g. “ream”, “cream” and “scream”.
Initial consonant clusters to build up and pronounce
- scream
- scrape
- script
- spree
- strain
- stray
- stripe
Final consonant clusters to build up and pronounce
- milked
- elms
- helped
- next
- ends
- ants
- amps
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