Blending Lines

Each day after a new sound spelling is introduced, we practice and apply the skill by decoding words that contain the sound spelling pattern. I write the word, we read the word sound by sound and then blend it back together. Someone also helps us to understand the word by using it in a sentence. At the end of each line (4 words) a "risk taker" reads the words to the class, before leading the class in reading these words.

Here's a snapshot of today's blending lines (we learned the sound of w_ and the sound of wh_) with a risk taker reading the words to the class.