Oral Blending Drill

Purpose

Blending sounds to make words

Summary

The oral blending drill supports learners' phonemic awareness by practicing blending isolated sounds into words. This skill, particularly blending sounds together, is crucial for decoding words efficiently.

Materials Needed

This exercise is conducted orally, you will need a list of words to blend.

How to deliver

This drill conducted orally.
Say the individual sounds for the first word in your list and ask the learner to blend them to make a word. For example, you say /m/ /ă/ /t/, they blend it to say 'mat'.
Continue through all the words in your list until you reach the end.

Suggested script

"I'm going to say the sounds in a word, then you say the word."

Common Issues & Prompts

Issue: Learner blends the word incorrectly

Do this: Blend the word slowly for the learner so they can hear the sounds being blended correctly.
Example: You say, “/t/, /ă/, /n/” and the learner blends it as “tap”. Slowly blend the word, stretching the sounds as you go, “ttttaaaannnn”, have the learner try again.

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Oral Blending Drill

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