Syllable Reading Lessons

Video Transcript

"One important technique to teach is as soon as you run into a word that's more than one syllable is to teach the child to break the word into syllables. This is also called chunking or breaking the word into bits and what you do, you can do it with your finger first but you show them to do it with their finger is you cover all the word except the first syllable and just worry about sounding that out first. Happ, notice that I put the double consonants together because they make one sound; I'm not going to break them up. Happ-i-ly and it will take a little bit of practice at first. By the time they get to sounding out the last syllable they might forget what the first one was, but work on it and you'll get to it. I'm using three syllable and four syllable words. Of course you'll start easier than this. Sudd-en-ly and if you get up to a word like this, ex-plan-a-tion and there's our -tion. Now I would think your child will probably use their index finger and not their thumb but from the angle I'm at, I'm using my thumb. Either way, it doesn't matter and remember their using their other hand to hold the book or you help them hold the book and remember that they're also tracking as they move from word to word, but you can stop when you come to a word and you have to break it up into syllables. "