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Teaching Students To Blend Handout

The document provides suggestions for activities to help students learn to blend sounds into words. It suggests using blending boards, blending cards, word/not word games, pocket chart pictures of word families, word family sliders, cupcake matching of CVC words, writing word families, race car blending, dry erase boards, and decoding words using onset-rime. The goal is to help students progress from sounding out letters to blending the whole word.

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Teaching Students To Blend Handout

The document provides suggestions for activities to help students learn to blend sounds into words. It suggests using blending boards, blending cards, word/not word games, pocket chart pictures of word families, word family sliders, cupcake matching of CVC words, writing word families, race car blending, dry erase boards, and decoding words using onset-rime. The goal is to help students progress from sounding out letters to blending the whole word.

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Ideas for Teaching Students to Blend

So your students are solid with their sound-symbol correspondence and are ready to blend those
sounds into words. If you assess and monitor using the DIBELS Next, you may find that moving
some students into just blending the word can be a bit challenging. The following activities may
help:

Decoding Sound-by-Sound
If your students are sounding out each letter and then going back to blend, you may want to begin
with onset-rime. Working with word families also helps students recognize “chunks” in words.

If your students do this: /m/ /a/ /t/ or /m/ /a/ /t/ /mat/
These activities may help:

Blending Board
Using blending boards daily during your small group
instruction is very helpful. Begin each session with
approximately 5 minutes of practice with the blending
board. Use the onset-rime cards for students at the level.
Directions for making a blending board and free downloadable blending board cards can be found on
the Make, Take & Teach website. Just click HERE. You may also wish to view the How To Use
Blending Boards video for a demonstration contained within the blog post.

Blending Cards
You may find the blending cards helpful during either whole group
or small group instruction. Students blend the underlined sounds
and then the whole word. To download the small cards, click
HERE. To download the larger cards, click HERE. It’s also
important to practice blending within context. I’ve also included
sentences containing CVC words with the blending cue lines for
use during small group instruction. Click HERE to download the
sentences.

Word/ Not A Word


The Word/Not A Word activity can be used during small group
instruction or as an activity within your literacy centers. Simply
write consonants on one wooden cube and word families on
another. Have students roll the cubes and write the word (or not a
word) in the correct column.

Pocket Chart Pictures- Word Families


The Word Families Pocket Chart Pictures is another activity for
helping students see patterns within words. Simply place the
target word families on the pocket chart and have your students
sort the pictures. You can find the Pocket Chart Pictures for Word
Families in the Make, Take & Teach online store.
Word Family Sliders
Word family sliders can also be used during small group instruction or
within literacy centers. Students read the words as they move the
beginning sound through the slot. Click HERE to download the free
Word Family Sliders from the Make, Take & Teach website.

Cupcake CVC Words


The Make, Take & Teach Cupcake Matching- CVC
Words is a fun activity for building words using word
families. Click HERE to download this freebie.

Writing Word Families


The Write-It Word Family Cards makes for a fun center
activity. Have your students place magnetic letters in
the box to create words. If a word is created with the
letter, the students write the words on the card.

Race Car Blending


Race Car Blending is an all-time favorite activity for teaching
students to blend. All you’ll need are dollar store race cars and the
tracks. Students blends the sounds as they move the car over the
letters.
Dry Erase Boards
During small group instruction, provide each student with a dry erase
board and marker. Have them write a word family on the board.
Provide words for the students and have them change the initial
consonant (e.g. lip, sip, tip, rip...). Change the activity by having them
write the first two letters and then change the ending sound.

Decoding Words using Onset-Rime


Once your students are blending words using onset-rime, it is time to move them along into just
blending the whole word.
These activities may help:
If your students do this:/m/ /at/ /mat/
•Use your blending board with the whole words.
•Play games such as Snowball Fight and The Big Game.
These activities give students practice blending CVC
words.

For more teaching ideas and activities,


be sure to visit our blog: www.blog.maketaketeach.com
Word Not a Word

www.blog.maketaketeach.com

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