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Parents,
To help your beginning readers, remind them of these things:
We "segment" to help spell words. We "blend" to help read words.
Words are made up of sounds. Good readers and writers are listening for all
the sounds in words. You know that you can "stretch" sounds that you know
in words to hear the phoneme segments. To be able to read these words, good
readers know that they have to "push" the sounds all back together as
quickly and smoothly as possible. This is called blending. We must not
simply isolate and segment the sounds, we have to push and blend them back
together to read.
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