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Blending Sounds

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Reading Doctor | Apps for teaching kids to read and spell

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Blending Sounds 1 - Reading Doctor | Apps for teaching kids to read and spell

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Phonics Words for Beginners Easily teach students to read their first words with phonics!

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What is Phonics?

Phonics is a method for teaching word identification strategies based on the relationships between letters and sounds. In Lexia ® Core5 ® Reading, phonics activities include the ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondence to reading and spelling words. In addition, phonics activities involve pattern recognition of syllable types, rules for syllable division, and simple spelling generalizations that are based on letter-sound correspondence.

What is the role of Phonics in learning how to read?

Phonics knowledge is important for developing accurate, and ultimately automatic, word identification skills. In learning to read, children initially rely heavily on phonic word attack strategies. They learn that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds. At first, this allows them to decode words and build their knowledge of letter patterns. They begin to remember these letter patterns and eventually recognize most words by sight. This automaticity is essential for developing reading fluency and contributes to efficient and effective reading comprehension. Phonic word attack strategies continue to be important in the later grades when students encounter unfamiliar words in text.

What is the approach to developing Phonics in Lexia Core5 Reading?

Phonics activities in Lexia Core5 Reading begin with building letter-sound correspondence knowledge and progress to include activities that require the application of this knowledge to decoding isolated words as well as decodable phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. The use of decodable text for beginning readers is essential for building the skills necessary to identify unfamiliar words and supports the development of automatic word recognition skills. Students gain an understanding of syllable types, syllable division, and simple spelling rules that are based on letter-sound correspondences as they build their decoding skills.

Initial phonics activities begin with identification of letter symbols and the alphabetic sequence. Students are then introduced to the relationships between sounds and letters for consonants and vowels as they match letters to the sounds in pictured words. This letter-sound knowledge is quickly applied to written words in tasks that require the analysis of initial and final consonants as well as medial vowels. These letter-sound activities reinforce phonemic awareness.

Students then learn to recognize letter patterns as they identify open, closed, and silent-e syllables in one-syllable words. In subsequent activities, they learn to combine syllables to construct and read two-syllable words. They also learn to apply phonic word attack strategies to read decodable phrases and sentences. Activities throughout the phonics strand aim to strengthen phonemic awareness skills as students continually analyze and manipulate the sequence of letters in words.

As students progress through the program, they are introduced to more complex sound and syllable patterns. Ultimately, students learn to identify all six syllable types and the basic rules for syllable division. They are also introduced to the common spelling patterns found in single-syllable words. Throughout the vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency activities at each level of the program, students apply their phonics knowledge to read sentence- and paragraph-level text.

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What is Phonics? Phonics is a method for teaching word identification strategies based on the relationships between letters and sounds. In Lexia ® Core5 ® Reading, phonics activities include the ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondence to reading and spelling words.

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Vowels

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Build bridges by building words in this silly game that tests your kindergartener's knowledge of using blends in spelling! As your child comes across each broken bridge in Blending Sounds Spelling, they'll need to spell a word using letter blocks. Each word has a colorful illustration to help, and a narrator sounds out each letter as your child spells, emphasizing letter sound relationships.

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Blending Sounds Spelling Game | Game | Education.com

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Kids build blending and spelling skills to help get the gang to school in time.

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Today I'm sharing a set of printable games that will help your child learn digraph sounds.
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Today I'm sharing a new set of single-player games. My Four loves these, and they're really helping him learn the sounds of common consonant digraphs!

My little guy knows his letter sounds, but those tricky consonant digraphs ( sh, ch, th) are another story. I began by creating a game to help him hear digraph sounds at the beginning of words.

Since he did so well with that, I created these games to help him associate each digraph with its correct sound.

To play, your child will need a playing piece (like these transparent counters), a die, and markers (we love Do-a-dot!).

Have your child put his playing piece anywhere on the perimeter of the game. Then have him roll the die to move around the board. When he lands on a letter or digraph, he says its sound and finds a picture on the board whose name begins with that sound.

He dots that picture with his marker and keeps playing until he has five in a row. Bingo! The game is over.

Why we love this game

The game teaches something new while also reviewing familiar letter sounds.

It's fun. My kids love rolling a die, using Do-a-Dot markers, and seeing when they'll get a Bingo.

It gives lots of practice. Every time your child lands on a letter or digraph, he has to say the sound and hunt through the pictures for one that matches.

My Four can play this all by himself. Since he's new at it, I sit right next to him, but as he gets better at it he can play it while I'm making dinner. (In the classroom, this would be a great game for learning centers or early finishers!)

It takes very little ink and is low prep. Don't you love print and play games that use only black and white ink?

Finally, the download comes with eight different games... from easy to hard. The first games focus on just one digraph at a time, gradually mixing digraphs and finally putting all five together.

Here's what you'll find in the download:

Game 1: sh (along with the single letters b, s, l, n, p, g, r, d, c)

Game 2: ch (along with the single letters p, m, k, j, b, f)

Game 3: th (along with the single letters b, r, m, g, v, c, g, p, r, l, b)

Game 4: sh, ch (along with the single letters a, y, w, z, n, y)

Game 5: sh, th (along with the single letters t, u, e, o, p)

Game 6: ch, th (along with the single letters l, g, s, l, d)

Game 7: sh, ch, th (along with the single letters b, k, i)

Game 8: sh, ch, th, kn, wh

Have fun!
More free printables for teaching digraphs
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Grab these free single-player games that teach digraph sounds!

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Today I'm sharing a set of printable games that will help your child learn digraph sounds. (This post contains affiliate links.) Today I'm sharing a new set of single-player games. My Four loves these, and they're really helping him learn the sounds of common consonant digraphs!

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Looking for a way to reinforce those tricky beginning blends? Try these free clip cards!
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So... are you teaching someone to read?

How's it going with those CVC words?

By "CVC" I mean consonant-vowel-consonant. Words like cat, sit, and hop. We usually start reading instruction with these simple words. After children have mastered them, it's time for the next step: beginning blends.

For many children, substituting a blend for that first consonant makes the reading much trickier.

To help tackle those tricky blends, I've created a set of beginning blend clip cards that focus on the following letter combinations:

But I didn't want these to be too easy. If I made the choices for the above card, crab, a choice between three different blends - it would be almost like an exercise in beginning sounds. For example, it wouldn' t be hard to pick "cr" from cr, tr, and pr.

So I made them tougher.

I always kept that single letter on the cards so that your child will have to determine whether or not the word begins with a blend. Because some of the cards don't begin with a blend.

See? Tricky.

In fact, for the first few cards my Four always went for that single letter. I had to help him see that we needed to check if a second letter was close behind.

My Four knows his letters sounds without even having to think about them. He breezed right through my beginning sound clip cards. But these blend cards were quite challenging. Here are some ways I helped him determine the answer:

I read all the choices to him after he named the picture.

"What's the picture?"

"Glue."

"Okay, so we have /gr/, /gl/, and /g/. Which sound starts the word GLue?" (I emphasized that beginning blend.)
*P.S. Whenever I have letters between forward slashes (as in /gr/), I am referring to the phonetic sound of the letters, not the letter names.

We made words with each of the choices to see which sounded right.

"Let's try saying glue with different beginnings. Gr... that would make it say grue. Gl... that makes it say glue. And plain old g makes it say goo. Which one is right?"

I'll be honest - this wasn't easy! And after doing a smallish stack, my little guy had had enough. I think we need to take a step back and focus more on playing with those beginning blends. I'm thinking about another printable that would be a first step... so stay tuned!

In the meantime, you'll love This Reading Mama's beginning blend BINGO. We'll be trying that too!

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Looking for a way to reinforce those tricky beginning blends? Try these free clip cards! (This post contains affiliate links.) So... are you teaching someone to read? How's it going with those CVC words? By "CVC" I mean consonant-vowel-consonant. Words like cat, sit, and hop. We usually start reading instruction with these simple words.

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Consonant Sounds: L Blends | Worksheet | Education.com

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Work on L blends with your first grader with this worksheet that asks kids to match pictures with the same beginning blend.