This consonant pair can be used to start off many well-known words such as plan, plain, and plane. The also team up to form some controversial words like plagiarize, plead, and plummet. Many manual labor activities are also acquainted with this consonant team like the words: plow, plumber, and plywood. In order to get students more comfortable with this blend we would suggest that you slow build a word wall that you refer back to often and have them regularly complete activities like the worksheets you will find below. I would often encourage students to write complete sentences with these words and do this several times each week. Note the word shape of this pair. The lower case letter p falls below the rising letter l. That configuration is overlooked when we focus on the upper case letters. We would suggest that you have them write the lower case form more often to get them use to this. That means not using the word that represents this blend as the first word of the sentence. I have seen teachers tell students to ignore that, but it then becomes a problem when they get on to capitalization rules.

You can bore your kids to tears by writing PL blended words on a chalkboard or stir a lot of interest in learning about new phonics and grammar topics by working with Easy Teacher PL Blends lessons. One module asks students to color every image in a PDF file that contains a PL blend. Another lesson starts a paragraph and then your kids complete the paragraph by writing appropriate PL blended words into the content. An answer key accompanies each of the 15 worksheets. Please your class by moving away from dry, traditional methods of teaching into the fun new learning world of Easy Teacher PL Blends worksheets.