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Quick Look: Segmenting Words into Syllables

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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.

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Teacher Liz Quezada: Say staple.

Students and Teacher Liz Quezada: Staple. Sta-, -ple. Staple.

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