Sounding out words

You’ve taught the letter sounds, but how do you teach blending sounds? We’ve got the tips, techniques, and activities to put it together!

This word slider trick will be essential in helping your emerging reader sound out words as they practice their letter sounds.

If you teach early reading, consider how you are teaching your students to read. Do you teach students to memorize words? Or, do you teach them to sound out a word and to depend on their knowledge of phonetic sounds? Two important skills that early readers must develop are the ability to blend and segment words.

Sounding Out Words Practice Pages (FREE) - words with blends and digraphs - This Reading Mama

H Brothers anchor chart after our word sorting mini-lesson. I wrote the words a head of time on flash cards and then let the kiddos sound out the words and glue them on the chart according to which digraph the word had. Now, this anchor chart lives in our word work center so that the kiddos can practice reading and making H Brother words.

Just print and play with your emerging reader!

Creating this simple word families flip chart makes learning blends an independent activity for kids!

This Magnetic Letter CVC Words Activity is a fun, interactive resource for beginning readers to practice sounding out and decoding words.

Early readers will get a great start with these beginning sounds free worksheets for their reading journey.

The ultimate lists of Schwa sound words! Get two printable lists with 128 Schwa Sound words and examples here.