After initial success with the basics of decoding, students may begin to flatten out in their progress as the words and sentences get longer and more complex. Many reading programs focus on monosyllabic words when teaching phonics, but the problem is by the 5th grade, more than 90% of new words are polysyllabic… and more variations can exist in how vowel sounds can be pronounced when they are surrounded by consonants. From a recent helpful article Helping Students with Dyslexia Read Long Words: When Nicholas read “advice” for “adventure,” he didn’t know how to break down the word “adventure” into syllables. The word “beautiful” was read as “beetle” because he could see the letters “b,” “t,” and “l,” but didn’t know how to figure […]
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