READ/SPELL – names of the consonanants

Reading / Spelling

• This resource of 3 pages covers seeing and hearing the names of the consonants

• Listen and repeat the names

• Write the upper and lower case letters while saying their names

• Do one group of consonants at a time

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20th July 2025

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• 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

• The names of the consonants rather than the sound they make can be referred to when spelling non-phonetic words and where two or more letters make one sound

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