READ/SPELL – consonant blends ‘xt’, ‘lb’, ‘lc’, ‘lm’

Reading / Spelling

• This resource pack of 6 pages covers hearing, reading, spelling and using words with blends ‘xt’, ‘lb’, ‘lc’, ‘lm’

• The blend is highlighted in brown and is made from the blended phonetic sounds of the two letters (next) (bulb) (talc) film)

• Click on the loudspeaker icon for sound

• Use Adobe acrobat comment function to write freehand, type text and erase online

Last updated
19th March 2026

A little more info...

  • Consonants are all the letters of the alphabet that are not vowels: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z

  • If a word is phonetic it means the word can be sounded out using the phonetic sound of individual letters, blends and digraphs

  • Every word in this activity is a real English word

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