Open syllables anchor chart

Open syllable

Using Orton Gillingham in your classroom builds confident readers, spellers, and writers with mult-sensory techniques!

If you teach struggling or beginning readers, you'll love the explicit, step-by-step techniques to help you teach open syllables.

It’s always so much fun listening and watching our young readers figure out those “longer” words. Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllabe words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words. So, really, what is a syllable? Simply put, a syllable is a unit of pronunciation containing a […]

Jan 11, 2015 - Syllable rules-teaching kids to read multi-syllable words

Closed syllables

Syllables anchor chart

I love teaching two syllable words! It’s always exciting when I get to that point in the year where they are ready to take that next step with reading and spelling. At the same time, it can also be a challenge for our struggling readers. I want to start this post by talking about some ... Read More about Teaching Two Syllable Words

*This post contains affiliate links. If you’ve read my blog for very long, you know I’m a huge fan of making literacy as hands-on as possible. To teach my oldest reader (2nd grade), we mainly use the Words Their Way word sorts and the letter tiles from All About Reading/All About Spelling. But every once ... Read More about Open and Closed Syllable Games