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What are adjacent consonants?

Posted on 1st December 201131st May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Synthetic Phonics and tagged adjacent consonants, article, beginner readers, 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 the letters ‘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 […]