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Step Four: Grow a Garden to Help Students with Dyslexia Blend Sounds
As you add sounds, your garden will grow.

Each week as you review a new letter or letter blend, create a new plant and add to your garden.

Eileen Bailey

Create new plants each week, working with a variety of beginning sounds. You can challenge students by making plants with ending sounds, middle sounds or letters with blanks in the middle, such c__d. In this example, students must find letters to fill in the middle of the word, such as /o/, /or/ and /ar/.

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