Use sounding out words, chunking words into smaller parts, looking for blends, digraphs, word families, etc. as a means of decoding unfamiliar words. 0101.1.12

Links verified on 1/2/2015

1. Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words.
2. Blending words together- Blending Bowl - blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide!
3. Handwriting For Kids - Practice sheets for K and 1st grade writing. Sheets include single letters, letter blends, common words such as days of the week, months of the year,number words, color words and much, much more!
4. Poem Pack - Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends. Read it, Hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends.
5. See 'N Spell - Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the pictures. A very good activity with many skills such as plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and digraphs.

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