Blend It, Bandicoot

Blending sounds into words: hear s … u … n, and find the sun · ages 4-6

Open on the projector The sheet to print

1. Warm-up, 5 minutes

Robot talk: say words in robot sounds (s … u … n) and have the class blend them back into the word.

2. The game, on the projector

Everyone blends the sounds out loud first, then one child taps the picture.

Projector mode is the game with ?projector on the end of its address. It's big and landscape, a win waits for you to press Next, and nothing is saved on the computer: no progress, no animal cards, no login.

3. Away from the screen

Robot talk in pairs: one child robot-talks a word from the sheet, the other points to its picture.

Questions to ask

Can you say the sounds faster, and push them together?
What word do those sounds make?
How many sounds did you hear?

Curriculum

AC9EFLA08: recognise and develop awareness of vocabulary used in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school
AC9EFLY09: recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness)
AC9EFLY11: recognise and name all upper- and lower-case letters (graphs) and know the most common sound that each letter represents
AC9EFLY12: write consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC) words by representing sounds with the appropriate letters, and blend sounds associated with letters when reading CVC words
EYLF 5.1: Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
EYLF 5.4: Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work

More detail, and every word it says: the page for grown-ups.