English Phonics & Word Reading Procedural 4–7 yrs

Blending Sounds to Read Words

拼读单词中的混合音

Description

Apply phonic knowledge to blend sounds in unfamiliar words containing taught grapheme-phoneme correspondences; respond speedily to graphemes for all 40+ phonemes

Mastery Evidence

✓ Sound out and blend unfamiliar phonically regular words (e.g. /sh/-/o/-/p/ → 'shop')
✓ Read words containing taught GPCs without excessive sounding out
✓ Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying differing letter sounds (e.g. 'big' vs 'bag')

Assessment Prompt

When your child comes across a word they haven't seen before, can they sound it out bit by bit and blend the parts together to read it — even if it takes a moment?