3.2 Explicitly Teaching Glued Sounds

Today we are going to start learning about glued sounds. Glued sounds are tricky because they are made up of more than one sound but it is hard to pull those sounds apart. The vowel does not say its normal sound in a glued sound. That’s why we learn these sounds as chunks.

This is a van. I hear /v/, /an/. We know the sounds for ‘a’ and ‘n’, but when they come together, the ‘n’ doesn’t let the ‘a’ say its true short sound. So, when we see ‘a’, ‘n’, we are going to say /an/.