- Syllables
Teaching Strategy Demo: Stomp and Say
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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.
