Blending sound fun

In Phonics the students practiced their blending skills to help them in both reading and writing by listening to 3 to 4 segmented sounds and then repeated the sounds to themselves by tapping down their arm and then putting the sounds together with a sweep down the arm. Ask them to show you how this works.  Give them /c/ /a/ /t/, they will tap and repeat and then sweep down their arm with the blend of cat.  This is a great game to play in the car on the way to town or home from school.  Keep the words easy and have a little blending fun. Maybe after a few tries, they can give you sounds and you can blend them together.  

Students used pictures to find the segmented word and checked with their peers.