1. Overview of 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/

Common Blends

Beginning two-letter blends:	bl-, cl-, gl-, fl-, pl-, sl-, br-, cr-, dr-, fr-, gr-, pr-, tr- , sm-, sn-, sc-, st-, sk-, sw-, sp-, tw-
Beginning three-letter blends:	str-, spl-, spr-, scr-, squ-
Ending two-letter blends:	-lk, -nd, -mp, -nt, -st, -ft, -ld, -sp, -ct, -lf, -sk, -lt, -lp, -pt

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Carla Stanford: These are called sound boxes. [Ms. Stanford points to boxes drawn in a row on a white board.] I'm going to say a word. I'm going to have you repeat the word and then we are going to push the two, the first two sounds in the word, and you can tap, so it will go like this. We'll do a practice. The word is block. Repeat.

Students: Block.

Carla Stanford: Tappers up.

Carla Stanford and students: /b/, /l/ ...

Carla Stanford: Did you hear that? '/b/, /l/, /ŏ/, /c/. Block. Excellent.

Tricky 'r' Blends: 'dr' and 'tr'

'C' vs. 'k' spelling rules

Print these 'c' vs. 'k' spelling rules

Exception to the Rule

You will find some exceptions to this rule, like in skate, skull, and skunk.