The purpose of phonics is to help students read new words by sounding them out. The student who uses phonics to decode a word can associate the printed letters with the speech sound the letters represent and then blend them together to pronounce the word. In this book, students practice with two-letter and three-letter blends, and diagraphs through activities in which they recognize the blend sound in a word using picture clues, use a blend to complete words, choose words with blends to complete sentences, and choose words to match meanings. Review pages throughout the book provide practice in discriminating blends or diagraphs.