How to Blend for Kids

Some kids have great phonemic awareness but other kids do not. So first of all working on phonemic awareness only maybe with some many abilities and dropping back to two sounds seeing if they can put two sounds together at first. If that doesn't work then I always go to successive blending where you show one letter and do one sound at a time. Last step is to use a whisper phone or some kind of listening device because maybe they're just not really paying attention to those sounds we know there's a lot going on in the classroom.