R Consontant Blends 

We will first define what R Blends are.'R' blends are termed as consonant blends whereby the second letter is 'R'. 

How many types of R Blends do we have?

There are six different types of 'R' blends, and these are as follow;

• cr,blends
• fr,blends
• br,blends
•  gr,blends
• dr,blends
• pr,blends

cr blends

crunch,creep,crush,crater,crayon,crime,cracker,crazy,crawl,crab,cry,cricket,create,crisp,

crook,cream,cross,crane,crow,crash,cradle,crack,crew

fr blends

friend,fraction,freedom,from,fragment,freeze,front,frontier,fragrance,frequent,fresh,frame,

friction,fruit,fried,fry,frost,fragile,fragmented

br blends

brought,brave,bread,break,broke,brake,breakfast,brakeman,brother,brain,brief,bridge,brag,

brass,brand,bring,

gr blends

grammar,gravy,group,gradual,great,ground,grasp,green,graceful,grape,greed,graph,grain,

gradual,granite,grease 

dr blends

dry,drift,drill,drop,dream,dress,drum,drama,drastic,dried,drip,drink,drain,dress,drown

pr blends

pretend,promise,pray,print,president,precious,press,problem,product,prize,probably,prevent,

price,pretty,predicate,practice,proud

Combination of L and R blends

R at the beginning and L at the end Blends

rural,ratal,ramal,repel,regal,refel,renal,rival,rivel,riyal,rotal,royal,rural,rebel,recal,ravel,rowel

L at the beginning and R at the end blends

lader,lamer,laker,lahar,lager,laser,lacer   

Practice drills for R and L using vowels

Exercise 1

ra re ri ro ru x5
ra le ri lo ru
la re li ro lu

rere rari raro raru x5
rele rali ralo ralu
lera lari laro laru

rera rere reri rero reru x5
rela rele  reli  relo relu
lera lere leri lero leru

rira rire riri riro riru x5
rila rile rili rilo rilu
lira lire liri liro liru

rora rore rori roro roru x5
rola role roli rolo rolu
lora lore lori loro loru  

 

Exercise 2

1. Rent,lent,wrap,lap, write,light,

 rain,lane,rate,late,rain,lane,Frank,flank,

2.  sorrow,shallow,broke,blown,grass,

glass,brain,blame,creep,clip, press,please,

3. shovel,shudder,apple,level,later,

 battle,green,glean,correct,collect,glass,grass,

4.  crowd,cloud, pleasant, present,fries,flies,

Fright,flight,fright

5. Play,pray,play

6. Glow,grow,glow

7. Flame frame flame

8. Brush,blush,brush

9. Bright, blight, bright

 

10. I will pray and play tomorrow

11. It will glow and grow soon

12. They brushed and blushed in the morning

13. It was very bright and blight 

10. Read the whole sentence
I will pray and play tomorrow because It will glow and grow soon, 

They brushed and blushed in the morning because It was very bright and blight .

n and d

n................

d..................

m................

b..................

1. band,bound,embed,grind,mound

    rhumb,plumb,clomb,climb,chimb,crumb,

2. amend,blind,brand,pound

   lamb,dumb,ambo,gamb,umbrella,

3.eland,bland,grand,found

  mbale,mombasa,mambo,zimbabwe

4.band,yond,bond,wend

  mbarara,mbuya,mbuzi,mbwa,

5.find,emend,hand,blend

   mbeki,mbotela,mbinu,membership,ambassador 

6.mind,rand,tend,frond,

  cumbersome,combustion,combing,ambient

7.vend,wend,sand,wind

  succumb,replumb,aplomb

8.kind,rind,send,pond,bond,

   forelimb,outclimb,doorjamb 

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