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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 9 of 12

Blend a Word

Push the sounds together

What your child practices

Listening for the sounds in a word, blending them to read it, and counting the sounds in words.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: Reading 2; Reading 3 · blending sounds into simple words

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Each word is made of sounds.
  2. Say each sound, then push them together fast.
  3. d – o – g makes dog!

Example: Blend the sounds: b – e – d. Which word is it? Say b, e, d. Say them fast: bed. Answer: bed

Blend a Word in Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 9 of 12 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Picture Clues and before Talk & Listen.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Maine Department of Education

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Blend the sounds: h – e – n. Which word is it?

    • 🐔hen
    • 🐛bug
    • 🚌bus

  2. Question 2

    How many sounds do you hear in “jump”?

    • 4
    • 2
    • 3

  3. Question 3

    Which word begins with “b”?

    • 🐛bug
    • 🚐van
    • 🦊fox

  4. Question 4

    Which word begins with “f”?

    • 🦊fox
    • 🚐van
    • 🐛bug

  5. Question 5

    Blend the sounds: v – a – n. Which word is it?

    • 🚐van
    • 🛏️bed
    • 🐛bug

  6. Question 6

    How many sounds do you hear in “up”?

    • 3
    • 2
    • 4

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