Once children understand that language can be broken into individual words, it’s time for the next step. Breaking it down even further: each word has one or more syllables.
All of this can (and perhaps should) be done without any reading or writing yet. It’s all based on sound and speech, which is the natural way for people to learn language.
In its simplest form, syllables can be explained as “every time you exhale air while saying a word”. This isn’t a perfect definition, but again, children don’t know what vowels and consonants are. These resources provide playful ways to test this definition and see if it starts to intuitively make sense to an Apprentice.
As usual, the best way to complement this material is by using the products from the other factions (reading the stories and doing the quizzes).
Product Contents
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- Explainer: words can be chopped into smaller parts called syllables
- Count Syllables (Start Elkonin Boxes)
- Which Word Has More Syllables?
- Sort By Syllables
- Odd One Out
- Jumbled-Up Syllables (Syllable Anagrams)
- Activity: Syllable Stepping
- Activity: Fill In Syllable Blanks
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| Syllacrostic | Nice (free) daily puzzles that you solve by picking the right syllables from a list of options. |