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Quick Look: Blending Phonemes

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Produced by Reading Universe, a partnership of WETA, Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book
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Jenifer Rogers: Here we go. We're going to blend our phonemes. We're going to blend our phonemes. I'm going to give you the sounds separate. You're going to pull them all back together for me. Here we go: /b/, /e/, /s/, /t/.

Students: Best.

Jenifer Rogers: /m/, /a/, /s/, /k/

Students: Mask.

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Blending Phonemes in Spoken Words Lesson Plan

This lesson plan uses the Touch and Say teaching strategy to teach students how to blend phonemes in a spoken word.

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