Syllable types activities

Help 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students practice decoding multisyllabic words with these 9 engaging activity ideas. These ideas make lesson planning and teaching multisyllabic word strategies to upper elementary students easier. Word sorts, word walls, syllable ladders, and more decoding multisyllabic words activity ideas.

*This post contains affiliate links. If you’ve read my blog for very long, you know I’m a huge fan of making literacy as hands-on as possible. To teach my oldest reader (2nd grade), we mainly use the Words Their Way word sorts and the letter tiles from All About Reading/All About Spelling. But every once ... Read More about Open and Closed Syllable Games

Do your students struggle with decoding multisyllabic words? Teaching syllable types is a great first step! Read more and grab freebies.

Need help teaching two syllable words with closed syllables? Here are four activities to make your instruction engaging, fun, and effective!

It’s always so much fun listening and watching our young readers figure out those “longer” words. Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllabe words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words. So, really, what is a syllable? Simply put, a syllable is a unit of pronunciation containing a […]

How to teach the six syllable types in your classroom, & why it's important for your students' reading, writing, phonics instruction.

Breaking up words into syllables can help a struggling reader to read small parts(chunks) of the word at a time to make sense of the the word. Here is a fun(free) printable game to practice

Unlock the secrets to decoding multisyllabic words for your elementary students with our Closed Syllables Decoding Multisyllabic Words Freebie! Effective and engaging games and activities, all with a no-prep, print and go approach designed for easy implementation. Explore one of the 6 syllable types and watch your students' decoding skills and confidence soar!

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