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📖 Kindergarten · ELARF.K.2cUnit 5: Letters & sounds, part 2 · blending CVC words

Blending sounds

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🎯 Objective: Students blend three sounds into a word (/c/ /a/ /t/ → cat).

Lesson outline

  1. Arm blending: shoulder, elbow, wrist.
  2. Blend picture words.
  3. Partner blending game.
  4. Exit: blend three words.

Lesson 3 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RF.K.2c

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Kindergarten — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Know all consonant and short-vowel sounds
  • Blend and segment sounds in CVC words
  • Read and spell simple CVC words

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Phonological awareness📚 All Kindergarten skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Letters & sounds, part 2 · blending CVC words”

  1. Letters e, k, l, r
  2. Letters u, w, j, v, y, z, q, x
  3. Blending sounds
  4. Segmenting sounds
  5. Reading CVC words
  6. Spelling CVC words

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