The often-overlooked – sometimes outright neglected – sidekick of word reading instruction is the 
multisyllable word.
SO many programs either don't teach students HOW to decode multisyllablic words or they teach it so late in the child's development it’s almost useless.
What's worse?
– When you DO find a program that teaches how to attack unfamiliar multisyllable words, it often bombards you with endless rules and syllable types that can take months – or even years – to learn.
A Better Way To Teach Multisyllabic Words.
Discover how SIMPLE our decoding strategies for multisyllabic words are.
They work – and they don't Overwhelm.
First, you’ll learn how to use the Read It activity, laying the foundation for the more advanced skills needed for multisyllabic word reading.
Second, discover how to introduce multisyllable word reading through Blend as You Read by Chunk to your students, whether they are beginning in or struggling with reading.
Third, notice how the Flex It decoding strategy also helps cope with all the unpredictable vowel spellings our students will encounter in multisyllabic words.
And that's it!
Just 3 core decoding strategies will take your students from non-readers to fluent readers.
Watch the video below for the skinny on multisyllable words….
Multisyllablic Word Reading Video Transcript (Key Points)
[00:53] – How the Read It activity and Blend As You Read strategy helps kids learn to blend the sounds in multisyllabic words
[05:33] – How to teach Blend As You Read by chunk (or syllable)
[08:56] – Examples of Reading Simplified Academy resources that you can use to help kids learn to blend the chunks (or syllables) of multisyllabic words
[11:32] – How kids can learn to “chunk the words” using the Flex It decoding strategy
[14:39] – A video demonstration of how a struggling reader uses the Blend As You Read by Chunk strategy to tackle the word “position”
[18:37] – The importance of targeted teacher feedback
[22:30] – A brief overview of the foundation for decoding and the activities and strategies that we teach inside the Reading Simplified Academy
[23:43] – How to help kids get better at reading multisyllablic words
Multisyllable Word Sampler
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Your Turn!
We'd love to know what you think about this against-the-grain approach to the teaching of multisyllablic words in the comments below…
been trying this method for the last two weeks and it works!
Great to hear Dion!!
How do students make the leap to chunking while they read? We have been doing this activity for some time, but my student is not knowing where to chunk it during guided and independent reading of trade books.
We still support them during Guided Oral Reading as they transition from just doing it in Word Work. Fade as much as you can with the simplest words and jump in when the student stumbles on a word.
If the child hasn’t had the full Reading Simplified Word Work system yet, then s/he may benefit from Switch It and Sort It especially. These will help the child “see” the code better and make MS word reading easier.