What’s on the Two-Letter Starts poster
24 entries in 3 groups.
In a blend you can still hear both sounds. In a digraph you cannot.
- L BLENDS: bl — block, cl — clock, fl — flag, gl — glue, pl — plane, sl — slide
- R BLENDS: br — bread, cr — crab, dr — drum, fr — frog, gr — grass, pr — prize
- S BLENDS: sc — scarf, sk — skate, sm — smile, sn — snail, sp — spoon, st — star
Blend: both sounds survive (st in star). Digraph: a new sound appears (sh in ship).
Questions about the Two-Letter Starts poster
- What’s on the Two-Letter Starts poster?
- 24 entries in 3 groups. In a blend you can still hear both sounds. In a digraph you cannot. L BLENDS: bl — block, cl — clock, fl — flag, gl — glue, pl — plane, sl — slide; R BLENDS: br — bread, cr — crab, dr — drum, fr — frog, gr — grass, pr — prize; S BLENDS: sc — scarf, sk — skate, sm — smile, sn — snail, sp — spoon, st — star. Blend: both sounds survive (st in star). Digraph: a new sound appears (sh in ship).
- Who is the Two-Letter Starts poster for?
- Two-Letter Starts is filed under 1st Grade (ages 6–7), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting literacy, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Two-Letter Starts poster?
- Say the two letters fast and squashed together. That is the blend. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Two-Letter Starts belongs on the wall where that literacy work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Two-Letter Starts?
- The CH Sound, The SH Sound and The TH Sound sit alongside Two-Letter Starts in the 1st Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The CH SoundThe SH SoundThe TH Sound
- Is the Two-Letter Starts poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Two-Letter Starts downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 1st Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Two-Letter Starts poster print at?
- Two-Letter Starts is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Two-Letter Starts loses nothing.Printing guide
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