2. S-t-r-e-t-c-h
and blend sounds
·Take individual sounds of letters and blend them together.
·As you are blending the sounds together, listen for a word you might have heard before.
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6. Chunk letters and sounds together and find small
words within big words
·Beginning and ending sounds
jump must
·blend sounds
green snake
·Word families
day, say, way
9. Flip the Sound
·Some letters have two sounds, we try one sound. If it doesn't sound right, we try the other sound that letter can make.
·All the vowels make two sounds and some letters like: "g", "c", "s".
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11. Cross Checking
·Does the word you are reading match the picture or letters
written?
cat
·Does it sound right?
·Does it make sense?
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13. Skip the Word, Then Come Back
·When students come to a word they don't know, they skip over the word until they come to the end of the
sentence. Then they back up and read the sentence again, using the first letter of the skipped word to figure it
out.
