Phonemic Awareness: Sound Blending

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by Speech Club Publications

Price: 325 points or $3.25 USD

Subjects: speech

Grades: 1,2,3

Description: Phonological awareness has been well established as a reliable predictor in the ability to successfully learn to read. Segmentation is an essential component of phonological awareness for both reading and spelling. In order to read and write words the must be broken down into sounds and the corresponding letters they represent. Segmentation contributes to an understanding of how sounds work together within words, the learning of spelling patterns and an awareness or familiarity of words in general. What is this Word? is designed to increase the ability to name a word when listening to or when reading individual phonemes. Students listen to or read the sounds then blend them together to name the picture. The answers can be found in picture form next to the sounds.