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Right now we're going to talk about blends, the next step, after your child has learned
consonant, vowel, consonant, like cat and dog or pot, we're going to throw two consonants
in the beginning as a blend. Now there are a limited number of blends. I think I covered
them all here we have fl, pl, bl, and again, try not to put a vowel on the end, try to
just get the two sounds of the letters, fl, pl, bl, st, sp, sn, cl, pr, br, cr, tr, gr,
and gl. Now have your child say those the way I said them. Go slowly and have them just
practice the blend sound in the beginning. Once they've mastered them and you can jump
around and do them out of order sometimes. I always do things out of order if I do them
more than once because their mind might start to memorize the order rather than the actually
working on it. Then we can get some of our words out and start writing them down as fast
as they come to you. Flap, snap, clip, and have them sound this blend out as one consonant,
let them get the blend first. Fl, flap, so that two letters replaced what used to be
the one letter. And then have them go down. Think of as many as you can and keep them
on one page with blends or make two pages if you have to and that is our next step in
our phonics learning.