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Looking to boost your child's reading and writing skills? Check out our "Extra Challenge Consonants Worksheets for Ages 6-8!" Designed to engage young learners, these worksheets focus on challenging consonant combinations and advanced phonics to enhance literacy development. Each activity is crafted to improve recognition, pronunciation, and usage in a fun and interactive way. Perfect for classroom or at-home learning, our printable sheets offer hands-on exercises that make mastering consonants exciting and rewarding. Start your journey today with Kids Academy, where advancing early education is our priority!


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Words with Sound N Reading Worksheet
Words with Sound N Reading Worksheet

Words with Sound N Reading Worksheet

Young readers will love the colourful pictures and simple sight words on this download worksheet. They can trace their way through the maze as they help the cute squirrel reach his acorns, finding words with the sound "n" as they go. It's a fun way to work on reading skills - they won't even realise they're learning!
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Let's Look for Consonants Worksheet
Let's Look for Consonants Worksheet

Let's Look for Consonants Worksheet

Help kids learn consonants and words that start with them. Ask them to recite the alphabet, then explain consonants are all letters but the 5 vowels. Use the worksheet to ask them to circle items without a consonant. Emphasize that's 21 consonants.
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Flying Planes Worksheet
Flying Planes Worksheet

Flying Planes Worksheet

Adding the -ing suffix to verbs is a breeze with this fun worksheet! Colorful planes help your child spot the correct spelling of words that end in consonants - double the consonant, add -ing! Kids can compare correctly and incorrectly spelled words, giving them a better understanding of how the word looks correctly. Download the free PDF and get spelling!
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Words with sound j Reading Worksheet
Words with sound j Reading Worksheet

Words with sound j Reading Worksheet

Don't be fooled: The letter J sounds like G in this letter sounds maze! Kids will enjoy helping Jack find Jill by listening to beginning sounds and tracing a path to the exit. Choose words that start with the letter J sound to complete the challenging maze!
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Peter Piper Alliteration Worksheet
Peter Piper Alliteration Worksheet

Peter Piper Alliteration Worksheet

Kids love tongue twisters! This worksheet familiarizes them with alliteration through Peter Piper, a beloved nursery rhyme. They underline words that start with the same letter sound, learning to recognize alliteration.
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Extra challenge consonants for ages 6-8 are an important part of language development, and teachers and parents should indeed care about them. These include consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs, and they are critical in helping young readers enhance their phonemic awareness and decoding skills.

Understanding these more complex consonant patterns enables children to read more fluently and with greater comprehension. When kids are familiar with how letters combine to create different sounds, they become more confident in tackling new and more challenging words. This confidence is crucial because it directly affects their general attitude toward reading and learning.

Moreover, mastery of these consonant structures significantly impacts spelling and writing skills. Students learn to recognize common patterns, which can help them spell accurately and express themselves more clearly. Improved reading and writing proficiency at this age lays the groundwork for future academic success in all subjects, not just language arts. It also can foster a love of reading, opening up a world of imagination and learning that will benefit them throughout their lives.

Thus, by giving attention to extra challenge consonants, parents and teachers can provide a more robust foundation for a child’s overall literacy, leading to enriched educational experiences and better school performance.