Closed syllable 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...

If you teach struggling or beginning readers, you'll love the explicit, step-by-step techniques to help you teach closed 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 […]

Teaching about syllable types empowers readers! Check out these awesome tips and resources to help you get started.

Teaching all six syllable types can be like a daunting task, but by using a types of syllables anchor chart it makes the process much easier

This Open & Closed Syllable House activity is a fun, multi-sensory resource to help teach the first two important syllable types to students.

Syllable division rules show us how to break up a multi-syllable word into its syllable parts. There are six main syllable division "rules" to guide us.

Open and closed syllable activities help kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students decode longer words. Today I'm sharing how I teach this essential concept with syllable houses, posters, sorting activities, puzzles, and more!

*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