Teaching Strategy Demo: Stomp and Say

Stomp and say is a strategy we can use to segment words into syllables.

We use our hands to stomp each syllable as we say the word.

Listen and watch as I stomp and say the word umbrella.

Umbrella.

Um-, -brel, -la

How many times did we stomp?

Three.

So there are three syllables in umbrella.

What was the first syllable?

um-

What was the second syllable?

-brel

What was the last syllable?

-la

Umbrella.