Multisyllabic Words Mastery
Multisyllabic words: the young reader’s Biggest Challenge
Did you know the number of multisyllabic words in textbooks increase every year beginning as early as the 3rd grade? In fact, the vast majority of English words are multisyllabic.
This is bad news for students who struggle to read. Because these words are long and hard to decode struggling readers simply stumble over them and keep going without understanding what they’re reading.
However, many teachers have found success in helping students master multisyllabic words and have developed stronger and more confident readers.
The Process to Mastery of Multisyllabic Words
In order to guide your students towards mastery it is essential to:
- Understand how students learn multisyllabic words;
- Assess how much your students already know;
- Familiarize them with Multisyllabic Words;
- Teach them how to use Multisyllabic Words in sentences;
- Make them comfortable with the word’s meaning;
- Make it fun!
In this article, I’ll walk you though step by step on how to use multisyllabic word lists and I’ll also provide all the necessary resources.
How do students learn Multisyllabic Words?
Multisyllabic words file away in the brain’s long-term storage when the student knows the most common prefixes and suffixes.
Through daily, concentrated practice with a variety of activities, the student can achieve multisyllabic word mastery.
Therefore, every teacher who has struggling readers should have a year-long resource that gives students tons of fun interaction with prefixes and suffixes.
However, the development of these activities can be time consuming. To add it on top of grading, lesson planning, and all the other tasks we have to juggle each day is overwhelming!
My bundle of multisyllabic word lists and games provides a year’s worth of multisyllabic word fluency mats, multisyllabic sentence list mats to encourage sentence fluency, and multisyllabic vocabulary worksheets to provide the tools you need to improve your student’s reading abilities without a ton of prep work!
As a result, with this bundle, you have everything you need for morning work to last the entire school year. It’s so easy!
How to Start Teaching Multisyllabic Words
It’s always a good idea to start by identifying the prior knowledge your students are brining with them. Using a multisyllabic words list baseline assessment is the best place to start, it will help you:
- Better differentiate your instruction;
- Track data about your students reading progress throughout the year.
Once you know what your students know, it’s time to start the fun!
Fluency Mats: building familiarity with multisyllabic words
Each multisyllabic word fluency mat contains a variety of 36 multisyllabic words. Make every lesson unique with mats organized by compound, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, and 7- syllable words.
Included in the bundle are:
- 4 sheets of Compound words
- 4 sheets of 2-syllable words
- 5 sheets of 3-syllable words
- 4 sheets of 4-syllable words
- 4 sheets of 5-syllable words
- 18 sheets of mixed syllable words
With a total of 39 different sheets, there’s plenty to use for daily review throughout the year.
Multisyllabic word fluency mats are easy to use. All you need is mats for each student and a set of dice (one die per group).
The activity
First, the student rolls a die and reads the column of words that matches the number on the die. Second, the die gets passed to the next person.
These steps are repeated until time’s up or until students have read all of the columns.
For an additional challenge, students can use a hand-held timer and attempt to beat their own best time during each round.
Multisyllabic Word Games: ensuring sentence fluency
Reading multisyllabic words is one thing, but using multisyllabic words correctly in context is another. That’s why it’s important to use fluency sentences as a part of multisyllabic word mastery training.
Included in the bundle are 39 different multisyllabic word lists for sentence fluency are:
- 4 sheets of Compound words
- 5 sheets of 2-syllable words
- 7 Sheets of 3-syllable words
- 9 Sheets of 4-syllable words
- 7 Sheets of 5-syllable words
- 4 Sheets of 6-syllable words
- 3 sheets of 7-syllable words
The activity
Similar to the previous activity, each student needs a one sheet of multisyllabic words and a die.
They simply roll the die and read the sentence that corresponds with the number on the die. With a variety of multisyllabic word lists, it’s easy to differentiate.
For an additional challenge, students can use a hand-held timer and attempt to beat their own best time during each round.
Multisyllabic Word Vocabulary Worksheets: understanding the word’s meaning
Not only is it important that students learn to decode a multisyllabic word, they also need to understand the word’s meaning.
For this purpose, also included in the Multisyllabic Word Lists Year-Long Bundle, are worksheets that can help build students’ vocabulary.
Ultimately, these worksheets allow students to practice matching multisyllabic words with its definition and can be used for independent, partner, or group work.
Make every lesson unique with worksheet organized by compound, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, and 7- syllable words.
The worksheets provide 546 different multisyllabic words and definitions including:
- 6 sheets of Compound words
- 4 sheets of 2-syllable words
- 10 Sheets of 3-syllable words
- 9 Sheets of 4-syllable words
- 6 Sheets of 5-syllable words
- 1 Sheet of 6-syllable words
- 1 Sheet of 7-syllabic words
- 2 Sheets of Review Words
360° Digital Escape Rooms: Assessing Multisyllabic Word Mastery…the Fun Way!
After implementing these easy-to-use multisyllabic word teaching tools daily throughout the school year, your students will be well on their way to multisyllabic word mastery. However, before assessing their understanding, you might consider fun review activities using stacking blocks or playdough as recommended by the Pride Reading Program. Better yet, check out my super fun 360° Multisyllabic Words Reading Escape Room. Though it is not included in the bundle, this escape room incorporates many different types of activities that will keep your students engaged and challenged while they show off their understanding of multisyllabic words!
The escape room requires students to:
- Put together jigsaw puzzles
- Solve word searches and crossword puzzles
- Complete fill-in-the-blanks
- Use a decoder
- Read and listen to short reading passages
- Answer questions based on short stories
The Multisyllabic Words Winter-Themed Reading Escape Room works best for 4th and 5th graders.
Learn more about our 360° Digital Escape Rooms.
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