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Blends Skill Explainer

Quick Look: 'r' Blends

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Princess Watts-Blount: All right. Now we're going to move on to our deck drill. Remember, with beginning blends, I want you to name each letter and then give me each individual sound. Okay? All right. Let's go.

Students: 'C', 'r', /k/, /r/. 'F', 'r', /k/, /r/.

Princess Watts-Blount: Let's try this one again.

Students: 'F', 'r', /f/, /er/.

Princess Watts-Blount: Now remember, I think I'm hearing /er/, remember the sound for 'r' is /r/. Okay. Let's try it again.

Ms. Watts-Blount and students: 'F', 'r', /f/, /r/.

Princess Watts-Blount: Nice.

Speaker 4: 'G', 'r', /g/, /r/. 'B', 'r', /b/, /r/. 'P', 'r', /p/, /r/. 'C', 'r', /k/, /r/.

Princess Watts-Blount: All right. Great job.

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Lesson Plan for Tricky Blends 'dr' and 'tr'

Use this lesson plan to teach students the tricky blends 'dr' and 'tr'.

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