Kilpatrick Syllable Strategy Write Up
Kilpatrick Syllable Strategy Write Up
Kilpatrick Syllable Strategy Write Up
TOPIC AREA:
ELA / Reading
GROUPING:
STRATEGY USED:
Kilpatrick syllable strategy – the idea of this strategy is to work on taking away letters or sounds
in words and seeing if the students could still say the new word.
This was another strategy that was done to test the students in phonics and phonemic awareness.
This strategy tests the student’s ability to hear verbally and process a new word. It can be a really
challenging strategy is students are not focused and listening closely. The goal is that student can
hear a word, take away a letter or prefix or suffix and be able to say the new word. This was
another strategy that was not just a one-day strategy as this was done multiple times throughout
my placement at New Brighton. I connected this strategy to Marzano’s top 9 with #6 cooperative
learning. All the students are working together to complete the list of words correctly and there is
not really anything else they are doing individually.
Huge success. Lots of fun to do and the students love being challenged. A lot of the students will
say “give me a hard one” because they really do enjoy thus activity. We have done this numerous
times during the semester because of how much the students enjoy it.
PERSONAL REFLECTION:
There isn’t much to reflect on personally for this strategy. There is only really one way to
implement the strategy and I felt as though I did a good job of challenging students that needed
more of a challenge and giving some easier ones to students who struggled more.