Teaching how to decode and blend words

Every K-2 classroom needs an effective routine of how to decode, encode, and blend words. In this session, we show you a great way to help students understand the connection between sounds and letters and how to blend sounds to read words correctly and confidently. This session will help you ensure that there is no guesswork in word reading! 
Teaching how to decode and blend words

Teaching Reading in K-2 Webinar Series

This series of webinars takes some big ideas and packages them up into digestible bite-sized sessions to help K-2 teachers and leaders take the next step in implementing evidence-based reading in their classrooms.

  • Each session covers a specific topic and aims to give you practical solutions so you can walk into your classroom and implement the literacy instruction with confidence.

  • Each session has takeaway resources, models, and ideas for how to best support your K-2 students.

  • Register to watch 1, 2 or the whole series. This series offers professional learning about explicit and systematic reading instruction available to watch when and where it suits you.

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  • 6 weeks full access

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  • 12 months access

  • Learn anytime, at your pace

  • Revisit lessons anytime

  • Great for solo learners

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  • 12 months access each

  • Learn together, share ideas

  • Build consistent practice

  • Ideal for teams or schools

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Frequently Asked Questions

Straightforward answers to your questions about helping students blend sounds and read their first words!

Students need to master the crucial skill of blending sounds together to decode words. Without this skill, students will struggle to learn to read.

This webinar focuses on teaching students how to decode and blend, the core skill of early reading.

You’ll learn practical routines for teaching blending from the very beginning, helping every student start reading words quickly.

K–2 teachers and literacy intervention staff.

You’ll learn how to teach blending, strategies like connected phonation and chunking, and routines to build decoding fluency.

Explicit demonstrations, teaching strategies, and guidance on routines for “I do, We do, You do” blending instruction.

When all educators use consistent decoding routines, students progress faster and fewer fall behind.

Yes – based on the Simple View of Reading, orthographic mapping research, and blending studies (e.g., Gonzalez-Frey & Ehri, 2020).
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