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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.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 0.1.1.1; 0.1.1.2 · blending sounds into simple words and decoding them

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 Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, 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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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

    How many sounds do you hear in “cat”?

    • 2
    • 4
    • 3

  2. Question 2

    Which word begins with “d”?

    • 🐶dog
    • 🪵log
    • 🐱cat

  3. Question 3

    How many sounds do you hear in “stop”?

    • 2
    • 4
    • 3

  4. Question 4

    Blend the sounds: b – u – g. Which word is it?

    • 🚐van
    • 🐛bug
    • 🐱cat

  5. Question 5

    Blend the sounds: d – o – g. Which word is it?

    • 🐶dog
    • 🕸️web
    • 🛏️bed

  6. Question 6

    Which word begins with “l”?

    • 🦇bat
    • 🪵log
    • 🦊fox

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