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Letter D Sound: Stop and Blend Worksheet
Say /d/ once at each dot, blend it into a sound you can hold, then read bed, den, dot and mud.
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Letter D Sound: Stop and Blend
7 questions, one page, US Letter. Print it and do it on paper.
On the sheet: Put your finger on the dot to say the sound. These sounds stop — try not to add an “uh” or an “a” after it. Say each sound crisply, then blend it with a sound you can hold. Check the box when the line is done 3 times.
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About this worksheet
/d/ is /t/ with the voice on: the tongue taps behind the top teeth. It's a stop sound: it comes out in one quick burst and can't be stretched. Held, it turns into a sound with "uh" on the end, and that "uh" is what keeps sounds from blending into a word.
An arrow under a letter is a sound to hold for as long as the arrow runs; a dot is a sound to say once and stop. The page starts with /d/ on its own, joins it to sounds from earlier days, and ends on real words: bed, den, dot and mud. It's day 15 of the 100-day kindergarten phonics sequence BrightPage prints, with one new sound a day after the first.
A worked example
Read dot on the last line.
- Find dot on the last line and put a finger at the first mark under it.
- Touch the dot and say /d/ once, quick, straight into the next sound.
- Slide along the arrow, holding /o/ (as in octopus) without a break.
- Touch the last dot and say /t/, crisp, then stop.
- Say it again at talking speed: dot.
Answer: dot
The common mistake
What it looks like: Saying "duh", or reading d as b.
Why it happens: /d/ is short, so an "uh" gets added; and d is b turned around.
How to fix it: Say /d/ straight into the vowel: /do/, then dot. For b and d, the word bed is the picture: b at the start, d at the end.
Ten minutes a day, on paper. We plan what comes next.
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