Description
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).
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Product Contents
- 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
Fine Details
| Detail | Value |
| Age | 3 |
| Categories | phonetic-awareness, syllables |
| Language | en |
| Level | 1 |
| Subject | language |
Subject: Language
The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.
This resource is part of the Language subject. Below is a summary:
This subject teaches the English language! From an Apprentice’s first utterances to being able to read any book and write their own stories.
Faction: Teachers
This resource is part of the Teachers Faction.
But that's just one way to teach and explore its topic(s)!
You can always move to a different Faction to find a more effective way to teach the same topic.
Played a quiz? Try a game! Played a game? Try an escape room! And so on.
For example,
Charm: Lesson Material
This product is part of the Lesson Material charm.
Visit its main page to learn more about what that means. Below is a summary:
Lesson Material refers to anything you can directly use in a classroom or when homeschooling. They are a guide for Guardians so they know what to do/teach, as well as the textbook or initial explanation of a skill/topic for Apprentices.
This charm represents the base product of our curriculum and the type of resource you’d use in a typical school setting.
Spell: Syllable Awareness
This resource is part of the Syllable Awareness topic (or "spell").
This step teaches Apprentices to cut words into even smaller parts. This is good, because smaller parts are easier to understand, memorize, and reuse.
Use the buttons below to navigate to the previous or next topic in the curriculum.
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| Link | Explanation |
| Syllacrostic | Nice (free) daily puzzles that you solve by picking the right syllables from a list of options. |