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My oldest son (currently 1st grade) had been reading along so well. We had studied short vowel patterns, blends, digraphs, bossy r patterns, and some long vowel patterns. Then he hit a little road block. Many of his independent reading books began introducing multisyllabic words and he simply froze. Because the words were longer, they intimidated him. That is, until we started playing Chu-u-u-nk That Word! {spoken with an announcer voice}.

Chunk that Word! Reading Decoding Game

To prep him for the game, I brainstormed a list of longer words that were made up of familiar sight words or word chunks that he already knew. {p. 8 in the FREE DOWNLOAD}

Finding Familiar Chunks

I modeled first on a dry erase board. I wrote the word and exclaimed, "Chu-u-u-nk that Word!" I circled the two familiar words with two different colored markers and read the word aloud.

Then, I let him have a go with more words.

Chunking Words at the Syllable Juncture

The next day, we reviewed a few more words on the dry erase board and then I introduced him to VCCV words with doubles in them (like rabbit or happy). I showed him how to chunk the word right in between the doubles and that he could easily decode each chunk.

We practiced again on the dry erase board. {Be sure to insert your announcer voice with each word.}

I made it a little harder on day three. We chunked words like picnic and reptile, sticking to syllable chunks that he could read and easily decode. (CVC, bossy r, and long vowel patterns ).

Matching Words to Pictures

Once he'd chunked words on the dry erase boards for 3 days, it was time to match words with pictures {also on the FREE DOWNLOAD}. I put all the words in one pile and pictures in another. He chunked each word by drawing a line to separate the syllables, read the word, then found each matching picture.

On day 5, he was handed the same words and pictures. This time, he was challenged to chunk the words in his head {without drawing the line} and I provided less support. I did allow him to use his finger to cover up part of the word, if needed.

My son will still sometimes get to a longer word and freeze. But I know he has the tools to "Chu-u-u-nk..." {you get the point}. I'm also quick to add a little humor in my announcer voice!

Becky Spence is a homeschooling mama to four little blessings. She is passionate about teaching, specifically literacy. She is the author of This Reading Mama, where she shares reading and writing activities as well as free literacy curricula and printables. You can connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google +.

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Chunk that Word! Reading Decoding Game - Spell Out Loud

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My oldest son (currently 1st grade) had been reading along so well. We had studied short vowel patterns, blends, digraphs, bossy r patterns, and some long vowel patterns. Then he hit a little road block. Many of his independent reading books began introducing multisyllabic words and he simply froze.

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I wanted to share a graphic organizer I created with all of you.This graphic organizer helped me engage my students in Non-Fiction reading by turning the activity into a game. It's all about the way we present it to them, isn't it? I pulled a few magnifying glasses from my Science kits and let students work in small groups or pairs as detectives. The organizer uses the acronym DETECTIVE to guide students through the text and spark discussion. It can be used before whole group discussion or afterward. Students can complete it during guided reading with teacher's support or during ceneters/individual work. I've used this graphic organizer in Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies as it is a great tool to integrate reading skills with the content areas. This organizer covers multiple Information Text standards ranging from 3-6 grades. 5.RIT.2, 5.RIT.4, 5.RIT.5, 5.RIT.7 I hope you find it useful. I'd love to hear how it worked in your classroom 🙂

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FREE "Go Yoda!" Harder Equivalent Fractions Go Fish Card Game I ♥LOVE♥ all of this clip art and had to make another freebie for you! This GO YODA! Go Fish Card Game focuses on some Harder Equivalent Fractions! COMMON CORE STANDARD 3.NF.3a ~ Describe equivalent fractions 3.NF.3b ~ Recognize simple equivalent fractions 4.NF.1 ~ Explain...

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Honestly, I don't ever remember learning syllable rules when I was in school, and amazingly enough, I still learned how to read. When I first started hearing about syllable rules (as a teacher) they were complicated statements like, "with a CVC pattern, if the vowel is short then divide after the second consonant." Holy cow! First, if I have a hard time memorizing a list of wordy rules like that, how in the world will kids memorize them? Second, how would a kid know if the vowel was long or short if they weren't able to sound out the word?

I think syllable rules are only worthwhile if they help kids decode words. I spent some time looking through syllable rules and picking out the ones that are actually usable to kids:

Now, just like with all "rules" pertaining to the English language, they don't work in all situations, but they are at least something to get your kids going on, and they work in most situations.

A little further explanation:

One vowel sound per syllable: Sometimes two vowels team up to make a single sound. So, the word "bake" is only one syllable even though it has two vowels because the a and the e work together to make one sound (the long a sound).

I've packaged up this poster and a matching bookmark for you. Click HERE to get it for free!

Ready to dive into kid-friendly syllable rules with your class? Save yourself some time with this activity pack. Click HERE to check it out.

Multi-Syllabic Decoding Strategy

Here's a way to put the rules together in order to decode multi-syllable words.

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Sharing is caring!Facebook11TwitterGoogle+Pinterest10k Honestly, I don't ever remember learning syllable rules when I was in school, and amazingly enough, I still learned how to read. When I first started hearing about syllable rules (as a teacher) they were complicated statements like, "with a CVC pattern, if the vowel is short then divide after the...

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The Multi-syllabic Word Party App is an interactive app for helping children learn and/or strengthen their phonological awareness skills which are critical for learning and maintaining reading skills.

Developed by a certified Speech-Language Pathologist, each game features audio and visual reinforcement through use of an interactive pacing board and familiar child games.

Multi-syllabic Word Party has four enjoyable games:

Tap-Tap, Outline, Remember, and Say & Slice

Tap Tap

A visual and auditory pacing board that reinforces players through color and sound.

Outline

Teaches shape recognition while simultaneously using the pacing board seen in Tap Tap.

Remember

A similar to the classic memory game and utilizes the pacing board after each match has been made.

Say & Slice

An even more interactive way to learn syllable segmentation by swiping/slicing syllables off of a word and then adding them again.

The fun and engaging game style design and interface was made for children in Preschool through 3rd grade.

Children, professionals, and parents get access to 200+ functional, high definition, real world images that range from 2 to 5 syllables in length.

Multi-syllabic Word Party can be used to target multi-syllabic words, syllable reduction, syllable segmentation, phonemic awareness, qualitative concepts, "wh" questions, shape recognition, sentence production, and more.

It's Universal, so you get it on both your iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch.

To play, simply select a game and a syllable level you want to work on and begin.

Have fun playing!

$3.99

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Multi-Syllabic Word Party App Preview | HomeSpeechHome

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The Multi-syllabic Word Party App is an interactive app for helping children learn and/or strengthen their phonological awareness skills which are critical for learning and maintaining reading skills. Developed by a certified Speech-Language Pathologist, each game features audio and visual reinforcement through use of an interactive pacing board and familiar child games.

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Decoding is the ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words. Understanding these relationships gives children the ability to recognize familiar words quickly and to figure out words they haven't seen before.

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Lesson Summary

Overview

In this lesson students will strive to become better readers by paying attention to clues given in the text. By using the "monitoring/repairing" strategy, students will observe and practice using other parts of a story to help them figure out unfamiliar words or ideas, and discover how they can put information together to help them get a better understanding of what they read. They will practice the strategy with an online interactive activity that reinforces the thinking process of the monitoring/repairing strategy.

Content Objectives

1. Students will identify words that are not known to them and decode or replace them in a variety of contexts.

2. Students will observe the teacher modeling the monitoring and repairing strategy.

3. Students will read short stories and/or articles and discuss in pairs and as a group information and vocabulary that is new to them.

Grade Level: K-5

Multimedia Resources

Blue Ribbon Readers: Fridge Magnet Game Interactive

Materials

A challenging non-fiction text or realistic fiction text based on facts.

Procedures

Pass out books or articles to students and explain that there will be words they don't understand, as well as more than one important idea or purpose in their reading. Read aloud and demonstrate the monitoring/repairing strategy, which involves stopping when new words are encountered attempting to determine their meaning. Once the teacher has modeled the strategy using the shared text, students may work alone or in pairs with another text. When the group comes back together, students will take turns sharing what they don't understand, or what they learned. This should be repeated with new or continuing text over several class days.

Students will use the "Fridge Magnet" interactive activity to highlight unknown vocabulary, and determine what they believe will make sense.

Students will also work in pairs or small groups reading short stories or articles and marking with sticky notes what they don't understand or what has been discovered that is new information.

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Blue Ribbon Readers: Monitoring and Repairing

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In this lesson students will strive to become better readers by paying attention to clues given in the text. By using the "monitoring/repairing" strategy, students will observe and practice using other parts of a story to help them figure out unfamiliar words or ideas, and discover how they can put information together to help them get a better understanding of what they read.

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Jessica and Shock rap about chunking, a method used to break down multi-syllable words. This resource teaches reading, sight-reading, decoding, and spelling.

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Decoding Multisyllabic Words | Scholastic

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These short lessons will help improve your students' reading and language arts skills by teaching them to memorize common syllable spelling patterns.

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As students progress in their literacy understanding, they move from reading and writing single syllable words (often with consonant-vowel-consonant constructions) to reading and writing multisyllabic words. Instruction focused on teaching students about syllables often focuses on teaching different types of syllables (open and closed) and what occurs when syllables join together within a word.

Marker activity

This activity, from our article How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities, is an example of how to teach students to use a marker (i.e., token) to count syllables.

The marker activity often used for word counting can be adapted for use in counting syllables. Teachers can provide each child with tokens and two or three horizontally connected boxes drawn on a sheet of paper. The children place a token in each box from left to right as they hear each syllable in a word.

Multisyllabic manipulation

This example includes several activities and a chart of multisyllabic words. One specific activity from this page is the Multisyllabic Words Manipulation Game. Teachers can divide words from reading selections into syllables, write each syllable on a note card and display the syllables in jumbled order. Have students arrange the syllables to form the words.
Multisyllabic words manipulation >
Clapping games

Associating syllables with a beat can help students to better learn the concept of syllables within words. Here's a clapping game to help young learners understand about dividing words into syllables.
Basic words clapping game >
Using mirrors

The following link includes information on introductory activities such as using mirrors for teaching students about syllables. Information is also provided about the different syllable spelling patterns.
Using a mirror to understand syllables >
Jumping syllables

This activity teaches student to separate words into syllables. Students move syllables around to create new "silly" words which gives them practice manipulating different sounds.
Jumping syllables >
Find many more syllable activities developed by the Florida Center for Reading Research.

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Syllable Games | Classroom Strategy | Reading Rockets

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As students progress in their literacy understanding, they move from reading and writing single syllable words (often with consonant-vowel-consonant constructions) to reading and writing multisyllabic words. Instruction focused on teaching students about syllables often focuses on teaching different types of syllables (open and closed) and what occurs when syllables join together within a word.