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Podcast: Stellar Teacher Podcast: A Podcast for Upper Elementary Teachers
Episode: 207. How to Help Students Read Multisyllabic Words (SOR Summer Series Part 6)
Description: The Simple View of Reading highlights that reading comprehension requires proficiency in both decoding and language comprehension. If a student struggles with decoding, effective comprehension instruction won't help them understand the text because decoding is a crucial part of reading. In this episode, I share a straightforward process to help your students read and decode multisyllabic words.To decode multisyllabic words, students should circle any prefixes, put a box around any suffixes, look at the remaining part of the word, underline the vowels, and break the word into syllables. Then, they should say the word parts slowly...