Level A, Build it
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Build It focuses on word-level work through chaining and sound blending. These skills connect phonemic awareness to phonics to read words accurately and automatically.
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In part one of Build It, the user builds a series of words by changing a single sound in a word. This is called word chaining.
The user listens to a word and builds the word using the tiles.
The next word is built based on a single sound change.
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In the second part of Build It, the user listens to a series of sounds and blends them to identify the written representation of the sounds.
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Users listen to, repeat, and blend the sounds to create a word. Then they select the blended word from the choice of word tiles.
This is a timed activity to encourage both accuracy and automaticity.
Users have two tries to select the correct word. Sortegories indicates the correct answer in green.
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The printable results screen shows accuracy and automaticity.
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