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Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Blending Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: What's the Sound? Identifying Phenomes Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity to build students' abilities to identify sounds, even in nonsense words. The teacher says a word and states that it is not a real word, but asks the students to just listen for the sounds.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Blending [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Graph the Sounds: Oral Segmentation Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group activity. Each group receives a Graph the Sound page (link included on site). The teacher holds up a picture and the group must graph each sound they hear when they pronounce the word.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Teaching Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do you teach your students to develop a blending ability through phonics instruction? This site features information to help get you started in your quest for this goal. According to this article you can begin with rhyming. Come and...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Draw My Sounds: Oral Blending Fluency Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.
Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Lucky Dip Game: Oral Blending and Segmenting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students pull an object from a bag, keep it hidden, stretch out its name by pronouncing each letter sound for at least a second, and everyone else has to guess the object.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Segmenting Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the word that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then underneath the word, writes down each sound in...
Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Build a Word: Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards with word parts printed on them out of a hat and if they can put it together and sound it out accurately they keep the card.
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Initial Blends Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor introduces words with initial consonant blends. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded out,...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 1) Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate blends in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 2) Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate blends in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Initial Blends Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of initial blends. Words with initial blends are included on the assessment. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: intial blends" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 1) Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of blends. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: blends (ending, part 1)" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 2) Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of consonant blends. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: blends (ending, part 2" lesson.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Overview of Letter Sounds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Overview of Letter Sounds resource has two sections: Introduction to Letter Sounds and Video Demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, glossary, and video transcript. This section is...
Graphic
Curated OER

The Reading Genie: Teaching Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Suggestions of ways to help students learn to blend phonemes to make real or nonsense words. Dr. Murray explains both onset-rime and body-coda methods of blending.
Unit Plan
Other

Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Gus the Duck

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn the short U vowel sound with this cleverly illustrated and animated read-along story about a duck named Gus. Students can click on the word and it will show them how to blend phonemes to pronounce the word.
Interactive
Other

Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches...
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Race Game, Oral Segmentation Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students are divided into two teams. The teacher calls one person from each team up at a time to look at a picture. The first player to yell out how many sounds are in the picture gets a point for the team. This site includes a link to a...

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