What do reading experts say about of the blend phonics technique?
Isabel L. Beck recommend the blend phonics technique in her excellent 2006 book, Making Sense of Phonics: The Hows and Whys. She “In contrast to final blending, I strongly recommend succesive blending (which I have sometimes called cumulative blending). In successive blending, students say the first two sounds in a word and immediately blend those two sounds together. They say the third sound and immediately blend that with the first two blended sounds. If it is a four-phoneme word, then they say the fourth phoneme and immediately blend that sound with the first three blended sounds. The strong advantage of successive blending is that it is less taxing on the short-term memory because blending occurs immmemdiately after each new phoneme is pronounced. As such, at no time must more than two sounds be held in memory (the sound immediately produced and he one hat directly precedes it), and at no time must more thans two sound units be blended.” (50). Beck mentions another advantage of the
