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Blending

When beginning readers sound out words, they slowly say each sound in a word (c-a-t), and then say the sounds quickly together to "read" the word (cat). In reading, teachers call this blending because sounds are being blended together. (http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games)


Blending is super important because being able to mentally join speech sounds together to make words helps students to decode unfamiliar words using letter-sound patterns when reading. (https://homeschoolingwithdyslexia.com/teaching-blending-early-readers/)

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