Phoneme blending

“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

One of the best ways to support your kindergarten or 1st grade students is by ensuring they have strong foundational reading skills, which includes being able to blend and segment words. Some of my favorite ways to practice phonemic awareness or reading CVC words, includes the use of hands-on games! Learn more about how and why you should be teaching these phonics skills, plus download my FREE CVC resource!

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

These engaging phoneme blending activities for kindergarten are a great addition to your small group phonological awareness practice. Help your students practice blending phonemes with these engaging activities. Click here to take a closer look at these phonological awareness activities for phoneme blending practice.

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…

Jessica Farmer on Instagram: "Phonics 101: Decoding vs. Encoding 🥳 Hit SAVE! Decoding: Applying phoneme/grapheme relationships to read words. Requires blending! Encoding: Applying phoneme/grapheme relationships to spell words. Requires segmenting! If you want to learn more about phonics and structured literacy, follow @farmerlovesphonics for more tips! I recently updated this resource to include more word building templates and word chain lists! Comment if you need the link. If you…

Blending cards help early elementary students by prompting them to pay attention to each sound in the word. These blending cards with images are a great tool

Teach phonemic awareness with 9 fun phonemic awareness games and activities. Phonics knowledge is the basis for an effective early years literacy program. The ability to hear and isolate sounds (phonemes) in words, blend and segment phonemes and manipulate phonemes are 4 phonemic awareness skills discussed in this blog post. #phonemicawareness #teachingphonemicawareness #phonemicawarenessactivities

Beginning phonemic awareness activities using items you already have in your classroom! Using blending and segmenting sounds in words.

Do you need a quick and efficient way to target reading skills for struggling readers? This Reading Intervention Folder is perfect to pull out during guided reading or intervention time to give your students extra reading practice. ***CLICK HERE to SAVE 30% OFF on ALL 7 of my Intervention Binders!*** This is a short sample from each of my reading intervention binders. It contains some basic pages from each binder that you can use to make a “mini” Intervention Binder or folder for quick…

Learn the difference between blends and digraphs and access free printable activities, worksheets, & charts to help teach phonics easily.

Free Blending Sheets.pdf

Build phonemic awareness with these Free Phoneme Word Lists and Blending and Segmenting task cards. The color coded word lists are divided into words with 2, 3, 4, and 5 phonemes and come with corresponding blending and segmenting color coded task cards. Incorporate this Science of Reading aligned resource into your daily phonics lessons to help strengthen students’ ability to decode unfamiliar words and improve reading fluency.

Blend Puzzles! A great way to work on reading this summer with kindergarten and first grade. Or as a great addition to a literacy center in the classroom when we go back to school in the fall!

Beginning phonemic awareness activities using items you already have in your classroom! Using blending and segmenting sounds in words.

Two board games to download using the 6 letters of satpin. To make games a little more interesting and a bit more competitive then give a counter, coin or sticker to the child who reads their word or sound perfectly. Who can win the most counters? All you need to play are two counters and a die. Throw the die and read the square you land on. DOWNLOAD: Can you blend and read? DOWNLOAD: Do you know your sounds?

This handout is helpful to keep on hand when teaching the skill of phoneme segmentation. This handout contains a list of words with two, three and four phonemes.

A blog by Melanie Lloyd (From the Pond) about classroom activities and printables for K-3 learners.

The importance of incorporating a daily word study routine into your teaching schedule cannot be overstated. In contrast to designing activities that require drill and memorization, word study enc…

Sharyn Kish on Instagram: "During our @heggertypa lesson today we used our snowballs to practice phoneme blending. We tapped out the individual phonemes (sounds) then rolled the snowball as we said the word. These #snowballs can be used countless ways in your classroom! There is a link for them in my #amazon storefront in my bio. #kinder #kindergarten #kindergartenactivities #prek #preschoolactivities #preschooler #homeschoolmom #firstgradeteacher #intervention #fun #teachersofinstagram…