This is a PowerPoint presentation I developed to help my First Grade students learn to blend sounds together to read long vowel e words (spelled –ea and -ie). Each word is color-coded and repeated across several slides that prompt students to make one sound at a time, and then blend all sounds together to read the word. After all sounds have been blended together, the word is displayed a final time with a picture to help students create meaning for the word they just read. The complete presentation features 57 slides that guide students in blending 11 long e words. The presentation also features notes as an instructional guide.

I have used this presentation with a digital projector as a mini-lesson for the entire class, and also as a station on my classroom computer to provide struggling readers with independent practice.

If you like this lesson, I have several more to offer as a teaching tool for additional vowel sounds, blends, digraphs, and compound words.

Created by Maria Manore