CR Blend Games for 1st Graders

How are CR Blend Games Beneficial for 1st Graders?

Sometimes, blends are incorrectly called out as digraphs. While in digraphs, two sounds combine to make a third sound, blends give the same individual sounds when the letters are very close to each other. For example, "C" and "R" make the sounds/k/ and /r/. These, when blended, produce the sound /kr/ like crow, cry, crack, or creek.

A student who has mastered blends will read and write easily and work on any advanced phoneme manipulation tasks seamlessly.

Learning to Blend as a 1st-Grade Student

Start with only four blends. 1st-grade children might already know how to produce the 'CR' sounds in daily life words. But slowly progressing by beginning with four syllables and then moving to five-six syllables, can be a better scaffolding approach.

Here are some word blends consist 'CR' that you can start with:

• Crown
• Crime
• Crack
• Cruel

Blending is a skill that is not easy to overlearn. Hence, practicing with online games can be of great help and a lot of fun.

Kids absorb more knowledge from visual content; that's why helping them practice educational games is well-suited for decoding the tasks. Pace this skill carefully and improve it with games on SplashLearn.

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