A blend is the written consonant sequence that comes before or after a vowel in a word or syllable. In a blend, each letter retains its individual sound.
Blending is a method used to help children learn to read by combining sounds to make a word. Blending is an effective to decode words that kids are unfamiliar with.
Blending in phonics can help kids join together the individual sound-spellings (also called letter-sound correspondence) in a word.