When we are asking our students to decode
a CVC word we are asking them to first recall the sound correspondence for the letters, hold those individual sounds in
their memory,
then go back
to blend the sounds together.
a CVC word we are asking them to first recall the sound correspondence for the letters, hold those individual sounds in
their memory,
then go back
to blend the sounds together.
So not only are we asking them to
blend, we are asking them to remember each sound.
blend, we are asking them to remember each sound.
This could be a little much for our beginning readers; it is especially difficult
for students with ADD or memory issues.
for students with ADD or memory issues.
Isabel Beck, author of Making Sense of Phonics: The Hows and Whys, explains how to do successive
blending so they do not need to hold more than 2 sounds together in their
memory at a time.
blending so they do not need to hold more than 2 sounds together in their
memory at a time.
How do you do successive blending?
1. Place
the letter cards “n”
“e” and “t” separated in a pocket chart
or on table
the letter cards “n”
“e” and “t” separated in a pocket chart
or on table
3. Point
to the “e” and
say /e/
to the “e” and
say /e/
4. Physically
slide the “e” over
to the “n”
slide the “e” over
to the “n”
5. Slide
finger along the “ne” and
say /ne/
finger along the “ne” and
say /ne/
6. Point
to the “t” and say /t/
to the “t” and say /t/
7. Move
the “t” card next to the “ne” to
make the word “net”
the “t” card next to the “ne” to
make the word “net”
8. Slide
finger under “net” and
say “net” slowly
finger under “net” and
say “net” slowly
Then we practice, practice, practice with a lot of fun games and adding movement!
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Great blog post, thanks for sharing this info 🙂
Teaching Autism
You are so welcome!
The "sliding the letters together" method works so well for my own kids. Great advice.
Hope it helps!
Thanks so much for sharing! I'll definitely try this out 🙂 Blending letters together has been helpful for my kiddos so I think they'll benefit from sliding the letters too!
Hope it helps!
We use a blending board for Orton Gillingham instruction. We slide our hand across the top of the letters but I want to try it this way as well. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks! I will have to check out Orton Gillingham.
Sometimes we are so used to naturally saying a word, we can forget our students need to see the word in action.Thank you!
Movement sometimes helps!