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These blending sessions can be very short and brief,
and you can do it as often as you like throughout the

day. The key here is doing it often. Whether your
child catches on to what you are trying to do is not

important. What is important is that you keep at it,
and keep playing the "blending game" with your

child. The goal here is to help your child realize that
words are made up of individual sounds, or
phonemes, and by combining these sounds, you can

form the words. Exactly how long it will take your

child to realize the fact that the individual sounds
make up words will vary depending on the child. It
might take some children one day, one week, or even

several weeks to grasp this concept, and you never
really know the exact moment that the light switches

on for them, but it will happen. Of course, this will
be quicker for older children than younger children.

The basics of this exercise is to simply sound out
words slowly and distinctly say the individual sounds
of the word. There are several ways you can play the

"blending game" with your child. You can play
"figure out the word I'm saying" - where you say the

phonemes of the word, and your child tries to form
the word from the individual sounds. For example:

• Carl, what word am I trying to say: c-a-t.

"CAT!" Carl answers. Now, what word am I
saying: b-l-o-ck.

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