Successive Blending CVC, Digraphs, and Initial Blends - Early and Middle Letter Name Alphabetic Stage Practice Successive Blending: The reader taps each letter as they make the sound. Next, the reader blends the first two sounds and taps the last sound. Last, the reader reads the word blended. Successive blending provided readers more success than final blending. Teachers may use these in small group, reading, spelling and intervention groups. This set includes: 40 blending pattern pages 21 Early Letter Name Alphabetic word patterns 19 Middle Letter Name Alphabetic word patterns Early Letter Name Alphabetic Short a -ad -ag -am -an -ap -at Short e -eg, -eg -en -et -ell Short i -ig -ill -ip -it Short o -ob -og -op -ot Short u -ub, -um -ug -ut Middle Letter Name Alphabetic Short a mixed CVC -at, -an, -ad -ap, -ad, -am Short e mixed CVC -eg, -en, -et Short i mixed CVC -ig, -ip, -it Short o mixed CVC -og, -ot, -op Short u mixed CVC -ug, -un, -ut Short vowels mixed CVC -an, -in, -un -ad, -ed, -ab, -ob -ag, -og, -ig, -ug, -eg -ill, -ell -ish, -ash, -ush Digraphs Sh-, -sh ch-, -ch, -tch Initial Blends sk-, sp-, st-, sm- sc-, sn-, sw- bl-, fl-, pl-, sl- cr-, cl-, fr-, gl-, gr- pr-, tr-, dr-, br- Beginning Sounds Wh-, qu- Keywords: successive blending, Letter Name Alphabetic, phonics, short vowel, same vowel word families, digraphs, blends, beginning sounds, mixed vowel word families, short vowel cvc, ccvc, cvcc, intervention