Blends
Give an example of a blend.
Blend, Trip, crispy, twirl.....
Give an example of a digraph.
Check, there, what, ship, phone...
Give an example of a short vowel sound.
a, e, i, o, u
Name all the vowels.
A, E, I, O, U
train
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Think of a sentence using a blend and write it
I got pretty flowers for Valentine's Day.
Think of a sentence using a digraph and write it
I need to talk on the phone.
Think of a word with a short vowel sound.
Think of word with a long vowel sound.
cake, make, bike, kite
play
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Have each person in your group write a consonant blend on the whiteboard and share it out loud.
block, brush, tree, spoon, swing, frog, dragon....
Have each person in your group write a consonant digraph on the whiteboard and share it out loud.
shark, chipmunk, twine, whale, graph
Have each person in your group write a word with a short vowel on the whiteboard and share it out loud.
mad, bed, pig, cot, fun...
Have each person in your group write a word using a CVCe spelling on your whiteboard and share it out loud.
ex. cake, bike, kite, like
team
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Where in a word can a blend be found?
Beginning OR end!
Where in a word can a digraph be found?
Beginning OR end!
Tell me 4 rhyming words using the short 'a' vowel sound
cat, bat, hat, sat, fat, rat, tat...
What helps us know that a vowel will be long?
Magic 'e' at the end, "two vowels go walking the first one does the talking", double vowels
Have everyone in the group write down a word with a vowel team on your white board and share.
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What is a blend?
Two letters that make one sound...but you hear BOTH letters.
What is a digraph?
Two letters that make ONLY ONE SOUND
What do you hear with a short vowel?
Its sound
What do you hear with a long vowel?
Its name
Write a sentence with a vowel team word.
ex. "The sea was calm".