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[quote=Anonymous]Bob books are great, but you need to practice on the skills, and then try to read a book. Get a set of individual letters (magnets. tiles, cards, etc.) and use them to form words.  They don’t even have to be real words.

I find it useful to have the child picture blending as the letters sliding into each other.  You can even draw a line, put a ruler down on a slant, etc.  Position the first letter at the top of the slide, with the others progressing down the slide.  Have the child physically move a letter down the slide, stretching out its sound until it runs into the next letter.

Repeat with related combinations so the child can get comfortable with patterns. The combinations don’t even have to be real words.  While it’s tempting to focus on rhyming patterns, and that may be useful practice, but it might be more useful, at first, to think of words sharing the first part.  For example, instead of starting with -at words (bat, cat, fat, hat, etc.), it might be easier to start with ba- words (bad, bag, bat).  You can include nonsense words (baf), but avoid words with “r” following a vowel, because it changes the sound of the vowel (bar).

Here’s an explanation of teaching blending from Bruce Murray, a retired professor of reading instruction:
https://geniebooks.ueniweb.com/lessons/how-to-teach-blending
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