• Identify the phonemes in a blending riddle that provides a clue to the meaning. One example might be: "I am thinking of a small, furry animal that meows" The sounds are /k/a/t/.
  
  
• Assign each student a specific phoneme. Form teams of students to create words from the blending of their assigned sounds. The words can be shared orally or visually by spelling the words on the board or charts.
  
  
• Construct a cloze passage from familiar material that has been read to the student or that the student has read. Delete every fifth word by covering it with a sticky note or select key words with particular sounds or patterns that you want to review. As students read the material, encourage them to "guess" the missing word using clues you provide. Start by providing the initial letter, and continue giving letters for them to use by blending their sounds until the word is identified.