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After your child has been mastering blends for a while, maybe a couple weeks, maybe a
little more, whatever you think and you've made them some nice books and worksheets using
blends and end blends, two in the beginning, two in the end, we're going to start having
double blends and triple blends. Now double blends are when you have a blend in the beginning
and the end. Two consonants, two consonants and just one vowel in the middle. So an example
and we'll make a separate page for them. An example would be bland, sting, fling, plend,
notice I threw in there, what is that? A nonsense word, it's not a real word but it will help
them practice the phonics and the sounding out skills and it's good and if they sound
it out correctly and don't try to guess that it's a real word, then you know that they're
really isolating those skills. Spend, and you can come up with as many more as you can
think of and triple blends. Now don't jump right to triple blends, master double blends
for a few days or weeks, whatever you think until you think they're ready and they're
just tired of blends. Triple blends are three in the beginning, str, spl, skl, spr, and
have them just say those and try not to put the vowel on the end like I did, and then
you can start strap, sounding those out, splat, strip, sklot, notice that's a nonsense word,
you don't have to circle it, I just did for fun, and sprung. Now look at this, I have
three in the beginning, two on the end. That's five letters that make up a blend. You can
start adding more and more at this point because your child will be very good at it. Strand
is another one and keep going like that, as many as you can think of.