Blending

Learn why your students are struggling to blend CVC words and try these 3 ideas to help support them in successfully blending CVC words!

Do your kindergarten or first grade students struggle with the phonemic awareness skill of blending? Successive Blending, also known as Continuous Blending, is a perfect activity to support kindergarten, first grade and/or struggling learners. Click to read this post which includes YouTube videos that explicitly demonstrate the process. We hope you try successive blending to promote successful emergent readers!

9 Hands-On Strategies for Improving Decoding Skills

Have you heard about continuous blending? This Science of Reading approach to teaching blending can support your students on the pathway to becoming fluency readers. Keep reading to learn more and grab a free printable blending road!

Are you looking for free activities to teach your kindergarten and first-grade students how to blend and segment? Look no further! Check out these digital and paper freebies to get you started with teaching blending and segmenting. In order to become proficient readers, blending and segmenting are critical skills that students need in order to decode words automatically.

Find a continuum of ideas and resources, including freebies, to help you teach consonant digraphs in kindergarten, first, and second grades.

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!

Use successive blending with these free blending cards. They're great for helping your struggling or beginning readers with blending CVC words.