Blending

Blending, or the ability to join speech sounds together to make words, is a crucial phonemic awareness skill that helps students to read unfamiliar words.

Blending is the skill of joining individual speech sounds (phonemes) together to make a word. Blending is a crucial phonemic awareness skill that should be taught as part of a research-based approach to the teaching of reading. Can you blend these speech sounds together to hear the word? Click or tap on the buttons to hear the speech sounds!

Why is blending important?

Blending is a crucial skill in learning to read, since being able to mentally join the speech sounds that are represented by letters helps students to work out unfamiliar words when reading. Difficulties with the ability to blend are a hallmark of the struggling reader.