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What is blending?
Blending is the skill of joining individual speech sounds (phonemes) together to make a word. While many young learners can learn letter sounds, blending these sounds together can be difficult, especially for kids with dyslexia. Blending actually involves the use of phonemic awareness skills and needs to be explicitly taught as part of a research-based approach to teaching reading.
Why is blending important?
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. Difficulties with the ability to blend is a hallmark sign of the struggling reader.
Why do some kids have difficulty blending sounds into words?
Kids who have difficulty blending phonemes (sounds) into words often are lacking in phonemic awareness skills. Blending also requires a student to hold the individual sounds in their mind as the word is created. This ability to hold sounds or syllables on a ‘thinking counter space’ is uses a student’s active working memory. Kids with dyslexia often have poor working memory skills.
What to do if your child is having difficulty blending.
Difficulty blending sounds (phonemes) into words reflects a phonemic awareness weakness. Developing a child’s phonemic awareness can be strengthened using some simple games. These can be incorporated into your daily teaching time with little effort.
How to Teach Blending to Early Readers
Blending Game
Say the word ‘mom’ slowly, holding each of the sounds for 1-2 seconds ‘mmmmooooommmmm’.
Have your child:
listen to the sounds
blend them together in his/her head
determine the word
say the word out loud
Repeat this often using other words.
The ‘Take Away” Game
The “take away” game is fun game in which kids take sounds away from words. An example is, “Say the word sun” (child repeats sun). “Now say it without the sss sound” (un) . . . say the word boy, now say it without the /b/ sound (oy).” You may have to help your child at first. As he or she gets better at this, you can have him or her take away blends (bl, tr) and eventually ending sounds.
How to Support Your Child During Reading Instruction
The most effective reading instruction includes modeling followed by guided support. As you sit with your child, model the correct blending of a word. Start by saying the sounds slowly and continue to guide them by saying the sounds faster and faster until they are able to discern the word.
Tips for teaching blending:
Some letter sounds can be elongated and held continuously:
• a, e, f, i, l, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, y, z
Other letter sounds cannot be elongated or held continuously:
• b, c, d, g, h, j, k, p, q, t, x
If the sound can be held continuously, hold the sound for 1-2 seconds and blend it smoothly into the next sound in the word
• For example, for the word man, say “mmmmaaaannnn”
If the sound can not be held continuously, say the sound once, pause briefly for 1-2 seconds, and then say the next sound in the word elongating it for 1-2 seconds if possible
• For example, for the word pin, say “p [1 second pause] iiiinnnn”
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