Blending

Now that we have learned some consonants and the short vowel a, we have started blending these sounds to read words.  Each week we will add another letter and sound. Blending letter sounds is an early reading strategy to read words we are not familiar with. It is such an important skill, even if we can read fairly well in kindergarten. As we read more complex text, we need this skill to break down and blend larger words and their word parts.  So far we have learned letters p, m, s and a.  Today, we used these letters to blend the words am, Sam, Pam, map, maps and sap.  There are many fun apps, and online games for blending.  Here is a link to one of those games.  Happy Reading!

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/blending.html