Closed syllable multisyllabic words

Do you have students who struggle when they encounter long words when reading? Use this process described in this blog post to help your struggling readers learn to decode multi-syllable words correctly and independently!

*This post contains affiliate links. If you’ve read my blog for very long, you know I’m a huge fan of making literacy as hands-on as possible. To teach my oldest reader (2nd grade), we mainly use the Words Their Way word sorts and the letter tiles from All About Reading/All About Spelling. But every once ... Read More about Open and Closed Syllable Games

If you teach struggling or beginning readers, you'll love the explicit, step-by-step techniques to help you teach closed syllables.

Help 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students practice decoding multisyllabic words with these 9 engaging activity ideas. These ideas make lesson planning and teaching multisyllabic word strategies to upper elementary students easier. Word sorts, word walls, syllable ladders, and more decoding multisyllabic words activity ideas.

Do your students struggle with decoding multisyllabic words? Teaching syllable types is a great first step! Read more and grab freebies.

Reading and writing open and closed syllables is a foundational skill for multisyllabic decoding. Learning to read part of a word helps students break

Sorting multisyllabic words activities Improving fluency is something we are always looking to do. I have the students do a number of activities with connected text to achieve this. But most of the time, students

Everything you need to teach a mini unit on two syllable closed syllable words. This resource includes an anchor chart, no prep printables, an assessment, and easy to set up literacy centers! Students receive plenty of practice to have a good understanding of multisyllabic words that include closed syllables. #ClosedSyllables #Phonics #Spelling #Decoding #LiteracyStations #WordWork

Good spellers count syllables! Syllabication activities and center ideas. The image shows a list of words included in the syllable game, "Oh My Stars!" Students withdraw word cards and collect stars. If the word has 3 syllables, they take 3 stars. If the word has 2 syllable, they take 2 stars. Winner is the first one to cover their game board with stars.

It’s always so much fun listening and watching our young readers figure out those “longer” words. Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllabe words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words. So, really, what is a syllable? Simply put, a syllable is a unit of pronunciation containing a […]