We use the programme Read Write Ink- by Ruth Miskin in our school. It's AMAZING to see how quickly the children begin to blend sounds to read words!

The continuous sound tip was a big hit this year! Thank you for this video where I learned it :)

Exactly what I’ve been doing for years. Glad you are sharing

These five tips are very helpful for me to figure out how to teach blending sound. As a nonnative speaker teaching English, this video let me understand how to teach it more easily and clearly.

Incredible! Caught myself smiling at the simplicity and accuracy of everything you taught in this video!

Have twins that developed their own language early on. Now they're well past that at almost 8yrs, but speech and reading are harder than normal. Speaking leaves things like the "r" sounding like a "w" and an "s" sounding like "sh" - not all the time but very commonly. They can do great on spelling tests reinforcing memory recall, but really have trouble with blending. They're a bit behind for their grades but not so much that they've been held back. I'd like to use this video to see if there is a better way to teach them at home! I like the way you instructed here.

Thank you, excellent suggestions. I work with adult learners and blending sounds is very challenging for them. They are also non-native English speakers. Will be using these tips next week.

I have a student who is really struggling with blending. I will try a few of these tips this morning! Thank you!

I find your videos so helpful. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing this tips. Very help full

So nice to see this! I've been doing the same things with my class, and now you just confirmed that my ideas for teaching them were good. Super happy! I subscribed! :)

Yes, answer to a prayer from my heart! Thank you!

Yes! Thank you I will be trying your tips tomorrow

YES! Thanks for the tips!

Yes. My 1st grader having trouble with blending. I use the Wilson Reading System, but now your tips about continuous sounds and others may help this skill development. Thank you!

Suggesting that the child blend two sounds before adding the third (or more) is very helpful. Thank you!

Great tips for blending! Thank you! 🥰

yes! Such a great video, so helpful! thank you!

Yes I do find this is definitely a challenge for my students!

Great tips...love tip number 5, use a lot of other tips already. Thanks for sharing, you are awesome!

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Thank for this! My daughter just started with cvc. We started with blending VC then we did some CV. I find that it’s easier for her to blend CV/C ( MA/T) than C/VC. Not really sure if there is a right or wrong way but it’s working out for her 😊

Watching all your videos for my kindergartener! Cant wait to apply all your tips!

I'm an early childhood teacher and I 100% agree with your tips!

you're teaching the subject I learned a lot of things from you are so thank you and we love you so much thank you so much

Yes! Im homeschooling my son. He innately started blending the last two letters of cvc words. I was a little worried that would be a problem so I'm happy to hear breaking it up into smaller bits is okay! We still get the "d-ooo-ggg...it says tree!" and I'm still at a loss for that conundrum. 🤔😳😝 Thanks for the video!

Thank you for your method. Nice 👍

My sons in 1st grade and is struggling with blending, thank you for your video!

Absolutely! YES!!!

Oh this really helped me under blending better! We are using the All About Reading program and me actually being able to hear how to model blending for my girls is super helpful! It’s also nice to have a a few other ideas of ways to demonstrate how to blend to them.

Thank you very much for this clear instructive video. I have applied all of your 5 tips to teaching Afrikaans and it works remarkably well. I have created a sound blender that I would very much like to show you.

Great tips! I will be trying a few!!!

THANKS FOR THESE. BIG HELP...

Thanks for sharing this tips

thank you for teaching me it help me to remember it

Love this, thank u so much

You have been a great help to me, as an individual I have been strongly with myself when it comes to spelling and punctuation, I almost give up on myself but God helped me to come across your videos on KZfaq. And I have been following and I'm learning allot. But I want to be perfect pls help me out.

Thank you it is so helpful

Thank you! I'm practicing the English for three days, but looks verry difficult; oh my god it's crazy d good. I love english and mathematic! Thank you...thank you! Are vidio amazing! Obs: I'm from brazil # I love american Obrigado por esses vídeos! Estou aprendendo o inglês há três dias, não sei se tô melhorando... .não consigo pensar em inglês e formar palavras de cabeça, queria saber se teria um jeito mais didático pra aprender rápido. Obrigado mais uma vez, amo seus vídeos ❤️❤️❤️

Yes thanks for the tips

Yes… thanks for the video!

Yes my students say the sounds but not able to blend and read

Yes! At least 3 this year

Look up Smooth phonics in UK. I did years ago. Works so well!

Thank you. This has been helpful.

Thank you so much ! This helps a lot! New subscriber! Easy to understand! ❤️

I'm glad that you confirmed my teaching method was good. thank you for this video

Thank you. It is so helpful

Great idea, will be trying them

Have you ever had students who really struggled with blending? Leave me a “yes” in the comments if you have!

Yes! My daughter does segmenting with me well but will say the word backwards when blending it. Tap turns into pat. She’s 5 turning 6 in November.

I have a 4 year old that I am trying to prepare for school. We have learned to write our name and we can recognize patterns. I am a dumb dumb and just very overwhelmed on knowing where he should be at this age. Your videos are very helpful!

Thank you!!!! This really helped me teach my kid

Thank you for the video! I have an autistic child that finds reading difficult, she knows her sounds but blending has been the issue.

Excellent presentation

Have tried everything but tip #5. Looking forward to trying that out

Yes! My 5 yr old daughter has trouble blending sounds and learning sight words. Currently enrolling in private school where she will have to be retained into kindergarten.

Yes, I have students who struggle with blending sounds

Great ideas✨👍👍

Yes thank

This has been such a struggle for a few of my students. So happy to find this. Why isn't /h/ a continuous sound?

Reading specialist here. My kindergartners do best when I blend the first two sounds together during ECRI and when using decodable readers. It is similar to your last strategy, but a little different.

Yes my learner can sound but can't blend to pronounce a word

Very good explanation in all your videos.

YES!!! We are struggling. I've tried so many different ways and I'm at a lost on how to help

YES!

Thank you

Yes!!

thank you 🥰

Thankyou reply needed this for my 5 year old

Yes especially at the start .

I have been teaching for 25 years... and YES

Yes I do. My strugglers seem to change one of the sounds. For example: bed. We'll go through the sounds /b/ /e/ /d/ and they can do that. But then they will either change the first sound and say led or change the last sound and say ben (or some variation of those words). Any suggestions?

I work in a care home with people with learning differences and I think this would be brilliant for them as they don't know how to read

Amazing ❤️❤️

Love your videos

Awesome!

Yes, instead she'd rather look at the picture and say it. With no pictures she just gets confused and I'm not a teacher so I find it difficult to to help her. So thank you so much for this video, hopefully I'll be able to help her.

Thank you for sharing thes helpful tips. I have a student who segments all sounds, even in sight words. She can blend sounds and eventually does say the word, but do you have any tips on how to help stop the constant segmenting?

Yes! I have students who are struggling blending. Any resources would be helpful.

Clipping sounds… I was substitute teaching as a one on one teacher for a first grader, when I was told by his classroom teacher to accompany the student to his group lesson with the reading intervention teacher. (No one ever tells these teachers about my credentials or degrees, so the reading intervention teacher didn’t know, and of course the students didn’t know that I had a Master’s degree in Education with an emphasis in Reading. 😅) So, the reading teacher proceeds to do the phonetic practice that they apparently do daily, but I was surprised when she pronounced the sound “d” as “duh” and “t” as “tuh” and “b” as “buh”! The students would, of course, repeat what she said as their practice. But, I was a little horrified, so I whispered in the child’s ear, “d” for example, and she quickly ordered me not to talk to him at all, and to just sit there. 😮 So, I obediently did as I was told, silently eating slices of somewhat foul-tasting humble pie, while I painfully witnessed other teaching mistakes that potentially fumbled the students’ progress! Then, during a later recess, I tried to just stand there and quickly teach him a little as he weaved through the play equipment, about sounding out sounds using the clipping of consonants method. But, he would have none of it, because I wasn’t the REAL teacher and he tried to correct ME! 😂 So, I just watched him play at a little distance. I think, after teaching in my own classrooms for years, I’ve concluded that substitute teaching is the harder job, by far, for many reasons!! One of the reasons being that an experienced teacher has to constantly eat humble pie!! It never quite tastes nearly as good as the pie that a REAL classroom teacher gets to eat! 😢

Very good 👍

yes...my son really likes your videos!

Yes! My child will begin 2nd grade now in August and was recently diagnosed with adhd. He knows most of the sounds but it struggles when moving from one sound to the other because he makes a hard stop in each sound, for example c/a/r. He doesn’t get how the c and the a together sounds.

good lesson.

Great video btw! Though I have a question: How to introduce the four or five letter words to children who are stuck at reading three letter words? Thank you so much in advance!

Thanks you so much

Yes maam

Are there any hand actions we can do when blending CVC words?

yes !

Thanks

Very helpful! Breaking up the word into 2 sounds helped immensely for my 5 year old. We are going through the Bob book series 1. However he often completely forgets a word that we had just spent time blending, sometimes in the same sentence. Is this normal? We can blend all words in a sentence but then he forgets the ones at the beginning of the sentence

Yes. My daughter is struggling with this.

Yes ....my son ....he is going to be 4 soon .....but dhows problem in blending...hopefully ur tricks will help

Great. Ideo!

YES

Yes, currently teaching a child with dyslexia. He is 13 and just diagnosed. Every help will be appreciated.

Yes

Yes!!!!

I do not give kids 3 sounds until they can blend 2 sounds, just the concept of blending is difficult for many kids. So I teach blending first. A great book is Phonic Pathways by Deloris Hiske, Look inside book scroll to end pages to get how she introduces blending, decoding. This book is out of print, but there are many used ones on line. Or just mimic this style. Having kids blend as they go means they only read each word once, which is the goal.