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Module 11: Chunking Words for Reading and Understanding

£25.00

This module is designed for students who have a reasonable grasp of phonics, but still struggle to read longer words

Overview

A common problem for teens and tweens is decoding long words, and many students resort to guessing based on the initial syllable, a few letters, or the context. These students need strategies for breaking words into manageable chunks and then putting them back together again.

There are two main strategies for breaking words into chunks. Words can be broken into prefixes, bases and suffixes according to their morphological structure. Alternatively, they can be broken into syllables. As these two strategies have complementary strengths and weaknesses, Chunking Words for Reading and Understanding teaches students to use both methods of ‘word attack’.

Students also learn to use their knowledge of the different ways that a grapheme can be pronounced to try out different possible pronunciations of a word.

Step-by-step guidance for teaching Chunking Words for Reading and Understanding is available in the Teaching Manual.

This module is designed for students who have a reasonable grasp of phonics, but still struggle to read longer words

Overview

A common problem for teens and tweens is decoding long words, and many students resort to guessing based on the initial syllable, a few letters, or the context. These students need strategies for breaking words into manageable chunks and then putting them back together again.

There are two main strategies for breaking words into chunks. Words can be broken into prefixes, bases and suffixes according to their morphological structure. Alternatively, they can be broken into syllables. As these two strategies have complementary strengths and weaknesses, Chunking Words for Reading and Understanding teaches students to use both methods of ‘word attack’.

Students also learn to use their knowledge of the different ways that a grapheme can be pronounced to try out different possible pronunciations of a word.

Step-by-step guidance for teaching Chunking Words for Reading and Understanding is available in the Teaching Manual.

What You’ll Get

  • The 23-page Student Workbook helps students to practise breaking words into manageable chunks.

    The workbook begins with a morphological approach to chunking, before systematically introducing syllable division in words with increasingly complex syllable structures. There are also opportunities to practise vowel flexing.

    At the end of the workbook, there is a list of advanced multisyllabic words for students to practise decoding.

  • 15 pages of resources to support teaching students to ‘chunk’ long words, and worked answers for the multisyllabic word list.