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  • Short Vowels Skill Explainer

Roller Coaster Chart for Segmenting

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Use this roller coaster visual to help students segment words into sounds. For instance, say the word wet and model how to segment the sounds. Begin with /w/ while you point to the bottom left of the roller coaster, then /e/ while you point to the top of the roller coaster, and then /t/ while you point to the bottom right of the roller coaster. You can also use this for blending sounds.

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