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

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!

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

In my latest blog post, I show you how one super easy activity and one simple decoding strategy can help move the needle with kids who have blending problems – once you try the Blend As You Read approach for yourself, I can guarantee you’ll never return to mainstream approaches again!

From time to time we all have a student that has particular difficulty blending sounds together.

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.