Decoding Multi-syllabic Words

Target: I can understand multiple ways to decode multi-syllabic words.

Break into syllables

• Clap the syllables• Elkonin boxes/Highlighters/Wikki Sticks• Syllable= one vowel sound

Break into word parts

• Teach prefixes• Teach suffixes• Teach base words

• (see 44 flip chart and manipulates)• (see prefix/suffix ppt)

Teach Support Cards

• Don’t know bookmark• Anita Archer’s steps

Don’t Know a Word?• Look at the pictures.• Sound out the word. • Look at the beginning letters. • Look at the ending letters. • Look for a smaller word in the word. • Skip the word and read the sentence.• Try to guess! Does your guess look like the word you see? • Use the words around it.• Go back and re-read. • Put another word in its place. • Ask a friend • Dictionary.

• Unknown Words• Word Page

Archer’s Steps to Reading Big Words

• 1. Circle the prefixes at the beginning of the word.• 2. Circle the suffixes at the end of the word.• 3. Underline the letters that represent vowel sounds

in the rest of the word.• 4. Say the syllables of the word.• 5. Say the syllables fast.• 6. Figure out if there is a word you know that sounds

very similar to the one you said, and then correct your pronunciation to match the word you already know.