My children are really struggling with the oral blending games. Any tips?

Is sound-talk part of your daily routine? Are you using all opportunities to orally blend (e.g. Can you put on your c-oa-t?) and to draw children’s attention to initial sounds (e.g. Ah! Coat starts with ‘c’, just like cat. C-coat, c-cat!)?

If not, then definitely start doing this! It would be worth running a training on this so that all staff feel confident sound-talking throughout the day. You can build up a list of shared words that will always be sound-talked (e.g. peg, coat, lunch, sit, clap etc.)

You might well feel like all you do is sound talk and point out initial sounds! But this little and often has a big impact!