I've taught the students I tutor some simple phonics rules. When a more than one syllable word comes up in a story a student is reading I've been tapping or clapping the number of syllables. I don't do this for every word. My goal is to have these children take words apart by syllable and use phonics rules to give sounding out longer words a try.
Separating words by syllables and making the sounds that follow the rules gives a new reader a starting point to sound out a word. I've taught the students I'm tutoring phonics rules. I've taught them to be flexible when reading:
vowel sounds can change,
sometimes letters work together to make new sounds,
some letters are silent,
but letters can't be added that aren't there.
Teach and practice some phonics rules, check if a child can hear how many syllables in a word and give reading longer words by syllables a try.
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