Stretchy the word snake shows how to segment and blend words for reading fluency and phonemic awareness. Stretchy stretches out each letter sound and then blends the sounds back together to decode and sound out words in this reading strategy video. Have fun stretching and blending with Stretchy the word snake. Stretch and blend your own words or name as an extension to this video.

Stretchy the word snake
Goes this and that way
Stretchy the word snake
Loves stretching words

He takes a word like sun
And he’ll stretch it, stretch it, just like this
/S/ /u/ /n/ /S/ /u/ /n/
Sun, sun, sun

He takes a word like red
And he’ll stretch it, stretch it, just like this
/R/ /e/ /d/ /r/ /e/ /d/
Red, red, red

Stretchy the word snake
Goes this and that way
Stretchy the word snake
Loves stretching words

He takes a word like nap
And he’ll stretch it, stretch it, just like this
/N/ /a/ /p/ /n/ /a/ /p/
Nap, nap, nap

He takes a word like log
And he’ll stretch it, stretch it, just like this
/L/ /o/ /g/ /l/ /o/ /g/
Log, log, log

Stretchy the word snake
Goes this and that way
Stretchy the word snake
Loves stretching words
Loves stretching words

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