SnapPhonics

brand

BRAND/ˈbrænd/noun
  1. nounA name or symbol that a company uses to help people know who made something.

  2. nounA product or thing made by a particular company.

  3. verbTo mark an animal by burning it with a hot iron to show who owns it.

  4. nounA mark made on someone's skin by burning with a hot iron.

  5. nounAny kind or type of something that is different from others.

  6. verbTo give someone a bad name or say something bad about them.

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Syllables

brand

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Phonics breakdown

br

Phonics Rule: BR Blend

B and R blend together — you hear both sounds! Like in 'brown' and 'bring'.

The blend BR combines /b/ and /r/ spoken quickly together.

Examples

a

Phonics Rule: Short A

The letter A makes a short sound, like in 'cat' and 'bat'.

When the letter A appears in a closed syllable (a syllable that ends with a consonant), it usually makes the short A sound /æ/. This is one of the first vowel sounds students learn.

Tip

A says /æ/ like a cat that sat on a mat.

Examples

nd

Phonics Rule: ND End Blend

ND at the end of a syllable blends /n/ and /d/ together, like in 'hand', 'sand', and 'send'.

ND is a common end blend (coda blend). The nasal /n/ and voiced stop /d/ are both heard. It appears very frequently in English words.

Tip

ND ends with a d-d-d — hand, sand, send!

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