Blending and Segmenting Activitity

When beginning readers sound out words, they slowly say each sound in a word (c-a-t), and then say the sounds quickly together to "read" the word (cat). In reading, teachers call this blending because sounds are being blended together. Blending (combining sounds) and segmenting (separating sounds) are skills that are necessary for learning to read.

Below is one of blending and segmenting activity that I've carried out in the classroom. Love to share it with you all here.

Step 1  : Pupils are divided into 5 groups.

Step 2 : Each group is given sets of phoneme cards and a picture.

Step 3 : Pupils hang the phoneme cards around their necks and rearrange them

            to form word that stressing on the phoneme /z/.

Step 4 : Pupils blend and say the word together.

SETS OF PHONEME CARD AND PICTURE

PUPILS BLEND AND SAY THE WORD TOGETHER

zoo  z-oo  zoo

pizza  p-i-zz-a  pizza 

fizz  f-i-zz  fizz

buzz  b-u-zz  buzz 
 

zip  z-i-p  zip

Here are some resources for teachers to find more ideas of blending and segmenting games:

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games/

http://www.pcboe.net/les/elderweb/phoneme%20segmentation/Phoneme%20Segmentation%20Games-1.pdf 

http://www.scholastic.com/dodea/Module_1/resources/dodea_m1_tr_blendseg.pdf