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 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, Appendix A provides activities for developing phonological and phonemic awareness skills, Appendix B provides activities for short and long vowel discrimination

• Vowel Spelling Pattern Cards and Labels
  6 sets of 9 Label Cards
  6 sets of 60 Spelling Pattern Cards

• Student Practice Book
  25 Student activity books providing practice recognising and pronouncing vowel spelling patterns and dividing multisyllabic words into syllables (consumable)

• English Vowel Spelling Patterns Student Desktop card
  25 Desktop Cards for student reference (consumable)
  25 Desktop Cards for classroom use

• English Vowel Spelling Pattern Wall Chart
  1 large format teaching chart

• Assessment Pad
  100 pseudoword spelling assessments
  100 pseudoword reading assessments
  

• Elevate & Evaluate Extended Edition
  Professional development resource with research-aligned and evidence-proven approach for teaching writing, reading, and spelling

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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