Quick Look: Segmenting Words into Syllables

At La Verne Heights Elementary School in the Bonita Unified School District in San Dimas, California, teacher Liz Quezada helps her students to use their hands to segment words into syllables — and then put them back together.

What did you notice?

1. When could you use this strategy in your phonics lessons?

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Segmenting Words Into Syllables Lesson Plan

Use this sample Reading Universe lesson plan for teaching syllables awareness with a gradual release approach, or I Do, We Do, You Do. In this lesson you'll use the Quiet Yell and Stomp and Say teaching strategies to teach students how to segment syllables in a spoken word. It includes all of the support resources needed to put it into action in your classroom.

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