Sort Out Your Syllables

The length and complexity of the words students encounter in their texts increases dramatically in the upper grades. But many students lack the strategies they need to read multisyllabic words quickly and accurately.

Sort Out Your Syllables teaches a simple strategy for decoding, pronouncing, and spelling multisyllabic words for Year 5 (Grade 4) and up. The fast, effective 10-minute lessons make it easier for students to read and write multisyllabic words, which in turn promotes tremendous growth in reading and writing. Sort Out Your Syllables follows the Direct Instruction model to provide structured, teacher-directed, peer support, immediate feedback, and opportunities for individual practice to apply the strategies taught.

Components include:

• Lesson Book
  50 carefully sequenced, 10-minute lessons with teacher notes, spelling patterns chart, and downloadable resources (available as a physical book or ebook)

• Vowel Spelling Pattern Cards and Labels
  9 Label Cards and 60 Spelling Pattern Cards x 6 sets (downloadable with e-book purchase)

• Student Practice Book
  Student activities providing practice recognising and pronouncing vowel spelling patterns and dividing multisyllabic words into syllables (downloadable with purchase)

• Vowel Spelling Student Desktop card
  Durable Desktop Cards for student reference (downloadable with purchase)

• Digital References
  Digital versions of the Reference Boxes found throughout Sort Out Your Syllables (downloadable with purchase)

• Digital Lesson Templates
  11 Lesson Templates for whole-class instruction (downloadable with purchase)
  

• Student Assessments
  2 assessments (downloadable with purchase)

Sort Out Your Syllables teaches simple strategies that get around the complex and often confusing syllabification rules that many students simply cannot use. It provides teachers with an opportunity to make a real difference to students who say, "I cannot read (or write) that word — it's too long!"

- Professor John Hattie

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