Blending Three Sounds into a Word

Put three sounds together to read short words like cat and sit.

Blending means joining sounds to make a word. Many first words have three sounds: a consonant, a vowel, and a consonant. We call them CVC words. Here is how to blend 'sit'. Touch each letter and say its sound: /s/ /i/ /t/.

Then say the sounds again, faster and faster, until they slide together into one word: sit. If the word sounds strange, check each sound again. Maybe you used the wrong vowel sound.

Blending gets quicker with practice, and soon you will see 'sit' and just know it.

• 1Blending joins sounds into a word.
• 2CVC words have consonant, vowel, consonant.
• 3Say the sounds faster until they become one word.