Consonant Blends | Letters and Sounds. Special | 29m 34s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Julia uses an anchor chart, whole brain teaching, and a song in order to practice consonant blends.

What letters are vowels? This Bitesize KS1 English guide looks at how anything that isn't a vowel is a consonant through an animation and activity.

GuessWord players should eliminate common letters first. Here are the vowels and consonants that appear most frequently in five-letter English words. Vowels and consonants are more likely to ...

Why are there more consonants than vowels in alphabetic languages? Bob Ladd Edinburgh, UK. The answer partly depends on whether we are talking about the sounds or letters of vowels and consonants.

However, the consonant combinations “ts” and “ps” aren’t used to start words in English, so the first letters became silent so it would meet the language’s phonological rules.