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Looking for tips in teaching syllable types? You're in the right place!

You'll enjoy the videos and freebies in this series. Just click on the images towards the end of this post to find the posts & videos in this teaching series.

Tips for Teaching Syllable Types

As our readers move from reading mostly single syllable words to longer words, they need to be armed with strategies to help them break apart these longer words into smaller chunks. Otherwise, they may just guess at or even skip over longer words while reading.

Learning the six syllable types can help our readers find common patterns they know in longer words.

The tips and tricks you'll read about or watch on the videos are explicit, hands-on, and systematic specifically with struggling readers in mind. BUT... {there's always a big but, right?!?} you'll find that these steps are good to teach to ALL your readers! It will empower them to read longer words.

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Last updated on August 5, 2022 by Not So Wimpy Teacher

Every year I am shocked by my students' underdeveloped vocabulary. They struggle with reading comprehension because of their limited understanding of words. Their writing can be very drab because of their limited word choice. And when it comes time for standardized testing they often struggle with understanding what is being asked of them because of the tier two words that can be found in the questions. They key to improving all of these things is meaningful vocabulary lessons.

But knowing I needed better vocabulary lessons was one thing. Figuring out how to teach meaningful vocabulary lessons was another. I struggled with how to teach it and when to squeeze it into an already packed schedule.

Early in my teaching, I would assign the five words from the weekly anthology story. I would tell them what they meant on Monday and then give them a multiple choice test on Friday. The kids passed the tests, but never truly learned the words. Also, the words from the basal rarely ever appeared in other literature that we were reading. It was terrible, but it was the only resource that the curriculum provided. I knew that if I was going to make vocabulary meaningful for my students I was going to have to start from scratch with my own words, lessons, activities and assessments.

So I did lots of research! I read blog posts and books about vocabulary and word acquisition. My very favorite resource is the book Word Nerds. I loved all of her ideas, but I needed to make the entire process simple and manageable in my busy classroom. After lots of brainstorming and trial and error, I finally have a vocabulary system that works, is easy to implement and that gets my students excited about word study.

Here is a look at my week of meaningful vocabulary lessons:

Monday:

On Mondays I introduce five new words for the week. I have chosen tier 2 words that third graders are most likely to see in literature. I do teach tier 3 (math and science words), but I usually teach those during units of study in those particular subjects. Our vocabulary time is dedicated solely to words that will increase my students' reading comprehension, writing and language skills.

I introduce words one of two different ways.

1. I give the students a sentence with the word in the sentence. I ask students to use context clues to determine possible meanings. After getting some student responses, I write the correct definition on the board and discuss the clues in the sentence that would help you to determine that meaning. This helps my students to practice context clues and inference.

2. Sometimes I give the the students the definition and part of speech and then ask students to try and use the word in a sentence. This helps my students to practice using the proper tenses, meanings and sentence writing.

Tuesday:

It is not enough to just talk about the words on Monday. On Tuesday we spend another 10 minutes on our meaningful vocabulary. As a class, we come up with two synonyms and two antonyms (or non-examples) for each of our words. This process has really helped my students to expand their vocabulary and understand multiple meaning words. The examples and non-examples help to make the new vocabulary words more concrete for my students. I also like to throw in some unique or fancy antonyms and synonyms from time to time.

Tuesday is really all about talking about words and why they are or are not good examples. We have conversations about parts of speech and verb tenses. Students start to see that the best synonyms are the same part of speech and tense as the original word. Sometimes the kids will start debating a bit about which synonym or antonym we should choose to record. Since I have taught them to be respectful, these debates really just deepen their word understanding. It is magical!

Wednesday:

On Wednesdays, we actually take a break from the discussion of our weekly words. Students need to practice using word parts to determine the meanings of new words. Each Wednesday, I give my students a "wow word." It is just a word that has either a prefix or a suffix. We will break the word apart and identify the root and the affix. We will define the root and the affix and we will brainstorm other words with the same root and/or affix.

Students have aha moments when they realize how affixes change the meaning of a word! We are still actively talking about vocabulary, but we are also hitting the reading and language standards associated with prefixes and suffixes.

This whole activity takes 5-10 minutes!

Thursday:

The human mind is so very visual. When I was in college I learned the art of color coding my class notes. If I made each category a different color- I could recall the information easier. I use this same sort of idea on Thursday. By this time, my students understand the meaning of the five new words for the week, but I want to help make it memorable. I don't want them to just be words that they learn for the week and then forget. That's why we call them meaningful vocabulary!

On Thursday I give students time to draw a small and simple representation for each of their words. The drawings must somehow show the meaning of the word. For example, when the word was gallop- one of my students drew a horse running. When the word was clutch- one of my students drew a hand holding a purse.

The picture dictionary activity is one of my students' favorites. I do it whole group and point out great examples for the students who struggle with this modality. The same activity could be bell work or a center. I just advise that you wait to do the picture dictionary until students have a good grasp of the word meanings. You may also want to give a time limit or students will want to make elaborate drawings.

Friday:

My kids LOVE our Friday vocabulary actives! Fridays are all about having fun while reviewing our current and past words. We do one of three activities on Fridays:

Vocabulary Social: This is such a fun and simple activity. I give each of my students a lanyard (you could also use safety pins, clothes pins or sticker paper) with one of our vocabulary words on it. I give them a minute to review their word in their vocabulary journal. They will pretend that they are the word and walk around the classroom introducing themselves to their classmates. The conversation might sound like, "Hi, I'm literal. One antonym for me is figurative." "Hi, literal. I am redundant. A good synonym for me is repetitive. Can you use yourself in a sentence?" The conversation will go on for a couple minutes as each student shares what they know. Then they will move on to talk to different students. This is a fantastic way to review before an assessment and it is a great way to practice all those speaking and listening skills! The kids like it because it is a little goofy! And that is ok, because we tend to remember things that make us laugh. I typically spend between 10-20 minutes on this activity.

Game Board: Kids love to play games! I have a meaningful vocabulary game board that I have printed and laminated. It works for any set of words. I add word cards to the board from our current list and some of the past words. The students work in groups of four. Students take turns getting a word card off the top of the pile. They roll a die and move their game piece. The color that their piece lands on tells them if they need to give the word definition, synonym, antonym or use it in a sentence. I do the game whole group so that I can walk around and listen in and offer any needed corrections. It could also be used in a center. This activity takes approximately 15-20 minutes.

Class Game Show: This is certainly my students' favorite Friday activity! I like to use it as we get closer to the end of unit summative assessment. Give each student a 3×5 card (or scrap piece of paper) with one of the words from the unit. Students must write one question about their word. It can ask for a definition, synonym, antonym, use the word in a sentence or even part of speech. Students must also record the correct answer on their card. They give me the cards and then I split the class into 4 teams: cows, roosters, horses and dogs. I give them these animal names because we use THESE buzzers. They make the animal sounds!

Teams stand in a single file line behind their buzzer. I will ask a question from the student generated questions. The first team to push their buzzer gets to answer. If they are right, their team gets a point. If they are incorrect, I will allow the other three teams to buzz for a chance to answer. Then those four players will go to the end of their team line and four new players move up to the buzzers. We continue like this until all the questions have been answered. The team with the most points is the winner. The kids love being competitive and they adore the buzzers! Of course, if you don't have buzzers, you can have each team have a sound they must make. It is still a blast! This activity take 30-45 minutes.

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Assessment:

I am always informally assessing students as I listen to them during our daily vocabulary lessons. I formally assess students every other Friday. They are assessed on two weeks worth of words. I have found that testing over ten words, rather than just five, makes the assessment more meaningful and requires students to remember the words longer. Questions are multiple choice and fill in the blank. It makes it easy for me to grade and doesn't take long for students to complete. The questions ask about definitions, synonyms, antonyms and using the words in sentences. The varied skills still challenge my students.

At the end of our unit, during the 9th week, we review all 40 of the words from the unit. At the end of the 9th week, students take a summative assessment. I want to be certain that my students are retaining all of this information and not just learning it for the week. This same assessment can be used as a pretest at the beginning of the unit as well. It is challenging, but my students have been very successful!

Data Tracking:

Throughout the course of our vocabulary unit, I think it is very important to track each student's progress. This helps me to decide which students need extra help and which word cards to use during the next game or social. I can strategically give a student the word that they missed on their last assessment! Tracking data also lets students know which words they need more practice with.

I make two copies of the data chart for each student. One page is used for the entire unit! I keep a chart for myself and ask students to keep a chart as well. As I am grading the bi-weekly assessments, I highlight any word that a student misses. This only takes a few minutes. I pass back the assessment to the students and quickly go over the correct answers. Students will then circle any missed words on their chart. A student who misses a lot of words on a regular basis, will receive flash cards and extra practice. A student who misses a couple words here and there is asked to review the missed words throughout the week using their journal.

Students are generally missing more words at the start of the year and as we study words, I am noticing an improvement in our overall ability to learn new words. The chart helps students to see that they getting better! It can also be shown to parents during conferences.

Vocabulary Units for Grades 1-5

I knew that I didn't want to spend time every week looking up words in the dictionary and thesaurus, writing sentences and creating assessments. And I'm sure you don't either. Who has time for that?!

So I put together an entire year of vocabulary lessons for grades 2-5. All you have to do is print and teach. Each grade level vocabulary bundle includes:

a vocabulary journal with graphic organizers

5 words for every week

vocabulary print out for students to take home

teacher guide with definition, sentence, synonyms and antonyms for each word

"wow" words for each week

cards for each word

extra practice task cards

game board

bi-weekly assessments

student and/or teacher data tracking form

end of unit summative assessment

Talk about making meaningful vocabulary instruction easy!

Have a Not So Wimpy Day,

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personification and onomatopoeia

-Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

compound predicates

-My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston

complex sentences

-Dandelions by Eve Bunting

prepositional phrases

-Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney

compound sentences

-Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee

prepositions

-Shortcut by Donald Crews

relative pronouns

-Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter

compound sentences

-Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine

complex sentences

-Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel

prepositional phrases

-The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey

relative adverbs

-The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin

adjectives

-Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting

compound subjects and predicates, I or me

-The Raft by Jim LaMarche

vivid verbs

-The Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco

quotation marks

I chose books that would be in most personal libraries or school media centers. All of these are personal favorites of mine!

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WHY USE MENTOR SENTENCES FOR DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE?
Studies have shown that the "traditional method" of grammar workbooks, lectures, and diagramming is not only ineffective but can be detrimental to student writing! Grammar should be taught in context, NOT isolation.

Mentor sentences also help improve craft by revealing fantastic models of figurative language, descriptive words and phrases, and interesting sentence variation that they use as models for their own writing.

Mentor sentences allow students to soak up the language and grammar skills through noticing, conversation, and imitation, which in turn transfers to their writing.

Not familiar with mentor sentences? Read all about them here!
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If you need more proof that the numerous volumes of mentor sentence curricula created by Ideas by Jivey are a best practice in the classroom, download the case study! The download presents the data collected over the 2016-2017 school year in the form of a case study.

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★ Volume 1 Interactive Language Arts Notebook Companion Bundle: includes an interactive activity for each focus skill in the mentor sentence sets.

★ Volume 1 Vivid Vocabulary Companion Bundle: includes vocabulary activities to use the words IN CONTEXT from the same books in all the mentor sentence sets.

★ Volume 1 Mentor Sentences Modifications ADD-ON Pack: supports students with disabilities, English as a Second Language, or slow writers.

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HELP ME PLAN!
You don't need to do all of the mentor sentence lessons in the order they come in the units. When I created units 1, 2, and 3, I put them in the order I used them in my classroom, so these lessons are in an order that spirals and gets progressively more difficult, but it is not necessary to stay in that order. Unit 4 was created a year later as "extra" lessons with more of my favorite books that I used throughout the year.

Included in this bundle, there is an "At-A-Glance" document for all 40 books in Volume 1! This download will help you see all of the skills covered in Volume 1 units if you'd like to "bounce around" within the units.

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Mentor Sentences can be done in ALL grades! Please tell your teacher friends about mentor sentences for their grade:
Kindergarten & ELL (Early Emergent Readers) First Grade Second Grade
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The most common sound in the English language, Schwa , searches for a place of belonging among consonants and vowels. Even though he doesn't have a letter, he learns that he plays an important role in words, after all. This phonics tale is a great teaching aid for elementary students and literacy lovers, alike!

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Connections is a daily game where you have to find common connections between words. According to the rules of the game, you need to collect 4 groups of four words that have a common connection, and not make more than 4 mistakes.

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Are you new to the Science of Reading and wondering how to teach heart words? This blog post will walk you step-by-step through the process!

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Heart Word Magic - Help Students Learn to Read and Spell High-Frequency and Sight Words

Heart Word Magic is a complimentary teaching tool designed to help students learn to read and spell high-frequency words and sight words, particularly those that aren't very decodable. Show your students the animations, then try these fun, hands-on free Student Practice Activities

What Is a Heart Word?

Show your students this video to introduce them to Heart Word Magic! We use animations and practice techniques to clearly show students that the alphabetic principle doesn't completely disappear in Tricky Heart Words. The same skills students use for decoding are also helpful in learning to read and spell these less-decodable words. Heart Word Magic helps them to "make the tricky sticky."

What is Phonics Suite?

How can you give your students the skills they need to become strong decoders and accurate and fluent readers? Really Great Reading has a solution. It's called Phonics Suite, a comprehensive set of tools to diagnose, group, and teach students with weaknesses in their foundational reading skills. There are even tools to monitor progress, report, and adjust. Click here to read more>>

Explore Our Library of Heart Word Magic Animations

After showing your students the Heart Word Magic animations, try these fun, hands-on activities with your kids.

Highlight the Tricky to Make It Sticky

One easy way to help students focus on and remember the parts of Tricky Heart Words they need to remember by heart is to simply have students highlight the part of the word that is "tricky" (the phonologically irregular part), such as the letter a in what. Check out our activities below.

Heart Word Magic Spelling Activity Sheet

This activity allows students to practice spelling Heart Words (high-frequency words) with irregular letter-sound relationships by filling in a heart above the irregular part of the word that must be learned "by heart." Below are some suggested directions and sample scripts to use with the words said, have, from, and the.
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Heart Word Magic Scaffolded Spelling Activity Sheet

This activity allows students to practice spelling Heart Words (high-frequency words) with irregular letter-sound relationships by listening to the individual phonemes in a word and then writing down the corresponding spellings. The teacher can give students the spelling for the irregular part of the word that must be learned "by heart." Below are some suggested directions and sample scripts to use with the words said, from, his, and of.
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Heart Word Magic Dissect a Word Activity Sheet

This activity allows students to practice dissecting Heart Words (high-frequency words) with irregular letter-sound relationships by listening to the individual phonemes in a word and then filling in the corresponding spellings. They fill in a heart above the irregular part of the word that must be learned "by heart" and write that tricky part again. Below are some suggested directions and sample scripts to use with the words said, from, his, of, and could.
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Sound Walls: Using the Science of Reading to Help Students Spell Video
This video on Sound Walls presented by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) walks teachers through the reasons for and how to set up a sound wall in the classroom. The video covers how learners perceive words, what a word wall is and how it is organized, the limitations of a word wall, and finally sound walls and how to incorporate sound walls in the classroom.

Sound Wall Cards
Printable sound wall cards to use in your classroom. Watch the presentation above by Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network and learn how to create a sound wall in your classroom, how to incorporate it into your instruction, and how to teach your students to use this as a spelling tool. There is a basic version of the sound wall cards that include the most common orthographic patterns, a more advanced version that includes more advanced spelling patterns, and a placemat or desktop version.

Most Frequent Spelling for Each Phoneme
This resource provided by Dr. Bruce Murray, Professor of Reading Education at the Auburn University, gives the top spellings for phonemes and percentage of occurrence. Understanding the frequency of spelling patterns can help both teachers and students when thinking about phoneme/grapheme correspondences.

Teaching Schwa
Schwa is the most common vowel sound in the English language and can be spelled with any of the vowel letters. In English, the vowel in an unstressed or unaccented syllable often reduces to schwa. Vowel reduction and schwa are prominent features of English. This resource covers what schwa is, why it's important to teach, and signs that a student might be struggling with the concept.

Common Spelling Rules
Phonics instruction teaches how the 26 letters represent 44 sounds in the English language. Quality phonics instruction includes encoding (spelling) practice as well as learning spelling patterns and rules. Learning that there are predictable relationships between sounds and letters allows students to apply these concepts and read and spell both familiar and unfamiliar words. This resource includes some common spelling rules and the explanation of why the rule works.

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The scripted lessons in this packet provide the teacher with a simple, fun method of teaching students the most important phonological skills: phoneme blending and segmenting. The premise is that communicating with Robbie the Robot requires the student to blend and segment. Robbie can only say words one sound at a time, which requires students to blend sounds to figure out what he said. He can also only "understand" words when the student says them one sound at a time, which requires the child to segment sounds.For young children, this explanation tends to be very accessible.
Robbie the Robot Lesson (PDF) Robbie the Robot Image (PowerPoint) Robbie the Robot Image (Google Slide)

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Etymonline - Online Etymology Dictionary

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What is a prefix?

A prefix (affix) is a word, or letter(s) placed at the beginning of another word (a base word) to adjust or qualify its usage or meaning. The opposite of prefix is suffix.

List of English Prefixes

extra-

very, more than usual, outside, beyond

extra-thin, extra-special

extraordinary, extraterrestrial

super-

extremely, more than, (least to greatest in order: hypo, sub, super, hyper)

superhuman , Superego , supersonic

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Familiarity with Greek and Latin roots, as well as prefixes and suffixes, can help students understand the meaning of new words. This adapted article includes many of the most common examples.

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Step 3 requires listing the relevant details. There were other details mentioned in the text, like the fact that there were half a dozen kids and that one kid hollered when the bus was coming. However, some of these details aren't relevant to the question "What season is it?" One part of explicit instruction includes helping students to determine important from unimportant information.

Once relevant details are gathered around the silhouette, it's time for Step 4. Model how to look for patterns and relationships among the details-to determine what these details have in common. To move from Step 4 to Step 5, students have to put clues together, which means thinking about the details one at a time.

Step 4: Working with the list of details surrounding the silhouette, start with the first jotted note. Ask students to consider, What does it mean when you jump up and down? (NOTE: It's possible that this could mean more than one thing. That detail alone might mean the kids at the bus stop have to go to the bathroom.)

Inferences are made by putting multiple clues together. Group the following details: jumping up and down, moving around, and rubbing and huffing on their hands. Using background knowledge, predict what the combination of actions might indicate-the kids are trying to generate some heat or keep warm. Add in the other detail about it being dark at 7:00, and you begin to move even closer. Pulling on some background knowledge, the reader recalls that it is not dark at 7:00 in the summer (in Indiana). Combining the "keeping warm" and that it's not summer leads the reader to infer that it is probably winter. The last detail: they ran to the bus. Of course, they ran because they were cold. They had been trying to keep warm, and that's why they were moving around.

Step 5: Determine what it means.What's the answer? What's the inference? It's winter. And there it is.

Step 3 and Step 4 are the critical steps to generating an inference. We need to help our students slow down and list the important, relevant details on the outside of Roz Linder's silhouette graphic organizer. Then, they rely on their background knowledge to make connections, generate predictions, and draw conclusions. These are noted inside the silhouette head. Reviewing those "mini-inferences" leads to Step 5 and the ultimate inference/answer to the question. This is then noted within the neck of the silhouette organizer.

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