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  • Blends Skill Explainer

Quick Look: Ending Blends

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Produced by Reading Universe, a partnership of WETA, Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book
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Jenifer Rogers: Who can tell me our new rule for this week? Vaughn.

Vaughn: End blends.

Jenifer Rogers: Everybody say end blends

Students: End blends.

Jenifer Rogers: So before we learned and we knew that blends could go where in a word? Last week, where did we learn that our blends could go in a word? Shaw?

Shaw: The beginning.

Jenifer Rogers: The beginning of a word. So last week we knew that those blends could go at the beginning of the word. And this week we now have learned that they can also go where?

Students: At the end.

Jenifer Rogers: At the end. Which is the back of the word. I love that. We could hear them at the end. So tell me please, what is a blend? A blend is ... together ...

Students: Two letters put together. Two sounds.

Jenifer Rogers: Ooh, I love that. So we know that we have to hear both of those sounds. We have two letters. Say two letters.

Students: Two letters.

Jenifer Rogers: We put them together.

Students: We put them together.

Jenifer Rogers: We hear two sounds.

Students: We hear two sounds.

Jenifer Rogers: That's right. Do some of them with me? What is the blend at the end of this word?

Students: 'sp'

Jenifer Rogers: /s/, /p/

Students: /s/, /p/

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