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Polysyllabic Words: My Dad Does Several Silly Things

Decoding Polysyllabic Words in Sentences: My Dad Does Several Silly Things

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Many students with reading difficulties struggle with long words – especially words with two or more syllables (‘polysyllables’). For example, many children will look at a long word and simply guess at the word, e.g. by looking at the first letter or by guessing at the word by looking at the accompanying pictures.

To make the work meaningful – and to work on reading fluency at the same time – we like to teach students how to read polysyllables using real words in sentences.

This resource contains 67 sentences designed to provide students with lots of practice decoding polysyllabic words in sentences.

SKU: DPW-1 Categories: Primary School, Reading Tags: decoding, phonics, polysyllabic words, polysyllables, reading, synthetic phonics
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Many students with reading difficulties struggle with long words – especially words with two or more syllables (‘polysyllables’). For example, many children will look at a long word and simply guess at the word, e.g. by looking at the first letter or by guessing at the word by looking at the accompanying pictures.

The benefits of working on polysyllabic words early

In our experience, it’s a good idea to work on polysyllabic words as soon as possible – before ‘guessing’ becomes a default strategy or habit. We start work on polysyllables as soon as students have mastered:

  • the basic code (linked a common speech sound to each letter of the alphabet);
  • high frequency digraphs, like <th>,<sh>, <ch>, and <ng>;
  • consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words;
  • consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant (CCVC) words; and
  • consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant (CVCC) words.

We usually start teaching students how to decode polysyllabic words in parallel with teaching them how to read split digraphs (sometimes called the ‘bossy’, ‘magic’ or ‘silent’ <e>) (e.g. <a_e>, <i_e>, <o_e>, <u_e> words) and the extended code (e.g. <oa>, <ee>, <ow>, <ay>).

To make the work meaningful – and to work on reading fluency at the same time – we like to teach students how to read polysyllables using real words in meaningful sentences.

This resource contains 67 sentences designed to provide students with lots of practice decoding polysyllabic words in sentences.

More information and resources

For free, evidence based on effective reading instruction, check out these articles:

  • Is your child struggling to read? Here’s what works
  • Too many children can’t read. We know what to do, but how should we do it?

For free, decodable stories focusing on the basic code, check out: Is your Kindy kid really reading? Find out with our 7 free mini stories

For our “Select-your-Sequel” adventure series of decodable texts for 7-12 year-olds focusing on the extended code and reading fluency – including the free first book – check out The Scatter-Slayer Adventures.

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