3 Ways to Blend 🥰 Save & Share! Do your readers struggle with blending? You might need to try a different method. Follow @farmerlovesphonics for early literacy tips & tricks that promote fluent reading! 🎉Typical Blending: Segmenting to blend. Not the best option for beginning or struggling readers. Continuous Blending: No stopping between sounds. Stretch and blend slowly. Hard to do if sounds are not automatic. Successive Blending: Sound by sound…blend to the vowel first and then to the end. C

This trick is a game changer! ⤵️Successive blending is when we have kids blend the first two letters together and then add in the last sound. This can be particularly helpful for kids who are struggling to blend words by saying the first sound and then adding in the last two sounds - like /k/ - /at/. 💙Be sure to follow along at @droppinknowledgewithheidi for most tips for early or struggling readers & check out my website for more free info!⭐️The resources shown are my intellectual property and