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Decoding and Blending Board Slides - R-Blends
Decoding and Blending Board Slides - R-Blends
Decoding and Blending Board Slides - R-Blends
Decoding and Blending Board Slides - R-Blends
Decoding and Blending Board Slides - R-Blends
Decoding and Blending Board Slides - R-Blends
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Decoding and Blending Board Slides - R-Blends
Decoding and Blending Board Slides - R-Blends
Decoding and Blending Board Slides - R-Blends
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Description

This is an animated PowerPoint presentation – a virtual blending board, if you will – to use with your students to practice decoding short vowel words with initial r-blends. The arrows move to point to different graphemes as students sound out and blend words.

WHAT’S INSIDE?

This PPT presentation contains more than 50 word slides to allow for explicit blending instruction and practice.

  • br-, cr-, dr-, fr-, gr-, and tr- words, separated and then mixed
  • 4 sentences with target patterns used in context

View the preview for a detailed look inside!


PEDAGOGY

Beginning readers need to be explicitly taught how to sound out and blend unknown words. This will require lots and lots of modeling of using the alphabetic code: matching graphemes and phonemes.

The goal of code-emphasis phonics instruction is to help students automate sound-symbol associations to decode words accurately.

Through lots of practice and exposure, they will begin to recognize some whole words automatically. Until then, though, students need to be in the habit of looking at all of the letters in a word in order to sound it out accurately.

Why are the blends in one box?

These are blending boards, not sound boxes. For fluent reading, we want students to be able to recognize and produce blends at once instead of having to sound out the individual sounds every time. Do we want students to be able to separate the sounds? Yes, of course, but that isn't the goal when using blending boards for decoding practice.

*Orton-Gillingham blending boards have blends on the same card.


WILL IT WORK FOR ME?

You need to have PowerPoint software in order to run this presentation. Or, you can upload the PPT to Google Drive and convert it to Slides.


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Decoding and Blending Board Slides - R-Blends

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1 PPT Presentation with 70+ Slides
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"This was a smooth sequence of targeted examples for the skill of the week. I am going to check your other resources."
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Description

This is an animated PowerPoint presentation – a virtual blending board, if you will – to use with your students to practice decoding short vowel words with initial r-blends. The arrows move to point to different graphemes as students sound out and blend words.

WHAT’S INSIDE?

This PPT presentation contains more than 50 word slides to allow for explicit blending instruction and practice.

  • br-, cr-, dr-, fr-, gr-, and tr- words, separated and then mixed
  • 4 sentences with target patterns used in context

View the preview for a detailed look inside!


PEDAGOGY

Beginning readers need to be explicitly taught how to sound out and blend unknown words. This will require lots and lots of modeling of using the alphabetic code: matching graphemes and phonemes.

The goal of code-emphasis phonics instruction is to help students automate sound-symbol associations to decode words accurately.

Through lots of practice and exposure, they will begin to recognize some whole words automatically. Until then, though, students need to be in the habit of looking at all of the letters in a word in order to sound it out accurately.

Why are the blends in one box?

These are blending boards, not sound boxes. For fluent reading, we want students to be able to recognize and produce blends at once instead of having to sound out the individual sounds every time. Do we want students to be able to separate the sounds? Yes, of course, but that isn't the goal when using blending boards for decoding practice.

*Orton-Gillingham blending boards have blends on the same card.


WILL IT WORK FOR ME?

You need to have PowerPoint software in order to run this presentation. Or, you can upload the PPT to Google Drive and convert it to Slides.


BUNDLE TO SAVE!

SEE MORE SLIDES:


Be the first to know about my sales, freebies and new products:

Look for the star and "Follow Me" button next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Thanks!

How to get TPT credits:

Navigate to My TPT, then My Purchases. Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you credits that you can use to pay for future purchases. I value your feedback enables me to create great new products!

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This was a smooth sequence of targeted examples for the skill of the week. I am going to check your other resources.
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Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
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