Reading Bigger Words
Reading bigger and bigger words is hard work! Our brains must register each letter and the sound the letters represent when put together. Your child is learning how to do this at school and the good news is, you can help your child read big words at home, too!
In this 5-minute routine, we show you how to build your child’s reading skills by practicing one word each day using the words you say and read each day in your home and community.
Before you get started with the routine, take a few minutes to read the key things to remember.
Key Things to Remember
- All words are made of smaller sound-based parts. We call these sound-based parts syllables.
- Breaking a word into smaller parts helps us think about each of the sounds in the word.
- Letters can represent different sounds based on the features of the smaller word parts. This can be tricky, but there are patterns.
- After we read each of the smaller parts of a word, we can blend the parts together to read the whole word.
