- Blends Skill Explainer
Quick Look: Ending Blends
First grade students review blends that go at the end of a word, like ‘-sp’ in crisp. Their teacher, Jenifer Rogers of Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta, reminds them that each consonant in a blend makes its own sound. Go to our Blends Skill Explainer for more on teaching both beginning and ending blends.
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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/
