You’ve taught the letter sounds, but how do you teach blending sounds? We’ve got the tips, techniques, and activities to put it together!

If you teach early reading, consider how you are teaching your students to read. Do you teach students to memorize words? Or, do you teach them to sound out a word and to depend on their knowledge of phonetic sounds? Two important skills that early readers must develop are the ability to blend and segment words.

Sounding Out Words Practice Pages (FREE) - words with blends and digraphs - This Reading Mama

If your child struggles to sound out words or blend the sounds together, these 5 Tips for Helping Kids Sound Out Words may help!

Just print and play with your emerging reader!

This word slider trick will be essential in helping your emerging reader sound out words as they practice their letter sounds.

Creating this simple word families flip chart makes learning blends an independent activity for kids!

Early readers will get a great start with these beginning sounds free worksheets for their reading journey.

The ultimate lists of Schwa sound words! Get two printable lists with 128 Schwa Sound words and examples here.

Blending sounds into words is another of those skills that demonstrate understanding of the sound structure of words, necessary for developing literacy skills. Kidz Learn Language: What Word Does this Say: Bl - e - n- d?