How to teach blending sounds

“B-u-s. What word is that?” *Your child stares at you cluelessly.* Does this sound familiar? So your child knows most of the sounds in the alphabet and you’re ready to teach him to blend those sounds. But when you tried sounding out each letter for him to blend, he just doesn’t get it. So

Successive blending is an instructional technique designed to support students who have difficulty blending words in sequence.

Rianna Le | Australian Primary School Teacher on Instagram: "Blending is easiest when... Words contain or begin with continuant consonants (sounds that can be indefinitely extended) 🗣 These are: f, l, m, n, r, s, v and z. Other consonants (nasal stops or non-continuants🚫) can be a little more tricky for emergent readers to blend as they have an obstruction of the airway which means they essentially ‘stop’ as they’re making the sound 👄 Try it out yourself! Make the /m/ sound vs. the /b…

Learn all about continuous blending, the research-backed way to teach the blending of sounds! This strategy will help kids learn to blend sounds effectively and read words quickly and accurately. Read, learn, and get a

You’ve taught the letter sounds, but how do you teach blending sounds? We’ve got the tips, techniques, and activities to put it together!

What do you do when your students get stuck on a word? Read this step-by-step guide to help you teach your students to decode independently.

Lindsay / Early Years Literacy Specialist on Instagram: "✨Trouble BLENDING words? This strategy will help✨ Drop the word ⚠️ BLEND ⚠️ below ⬇️ for a link to my “Scooping Mats” AND teaching slides seen ⬆️ Can your child read each of these sounds /c/a/t but can’t blend them together? And might say random words instead- car, cake, house? 😬 Never fear! Successive blending is here! This has been a game changer in my classroom! Some readers need more support with short term memory. These…

Kaley Sara on Instagram: "Say “blending” to get the 🔗 to the PERFECT resource to help kids blend sounds together. This is called successive blending - you blend the first two sounds and then add on more sounds as you go. This helps kids: 🩷 blend sounds into words ❤️ not lose their place when they’re reading words 🧡 not make up sounds as they go (“c-a-t” - chips 🤨) 💛 they won’t sound like a robot 🤖 The first method I showed is one that I’ve used for years. However, I’ve found that…

If you teach early reading, consider how you are teaching your students to read. Do you teach students to memorize words? Or, do you teach them to sound out a word and to depend on their knowledge of phonetic sounds? Two important skills that early readers must develop are the ability to blend and segment words.