Review: Blend, Segment, and Spell

Practice everything: blends, digraphs, short and long vowels.

Let's put your sound skills together. Blending turns letters into a spoken word. Segmenting turns a spoken word into letters. Both need you to notice letter teams and vowels. Read this sentence: 'The chick can stand on the bench.

' 'Chick' has the digraph ch and the ending ck. 'Stand' has a blend at both ends, st and nd. 'Bench' ends with the digraph ch after n. Now spell 'thump': /th/ /u/ /m/ /p/, so t-h-u-m-p. You used digraphs, blends, and a short vowel all at once!

• 1Blending reads; segmenting spells.
• 2Look for letter teams and blends.
• 3Check every vowel sound.