Former teacher and current Director of Education and Programs at the Mississippi Children’s Museum, Monique Ealey, talks about her fun and engaging “stomp and say” strategy to help students practice segmenting and counting syllables in words.
At Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, teacher DeAngela Huggins works with students on segmenting words into phonemes by tapping out the sounds in each word with their fingers.
Students in teacher Liz Quezada’s class practice segmenting words by pulling apart syllables and then putting them back together to form the word. They’re at La Verne Heights Elementary School in La Verne, California.
At La Verne Heights Elementary School in La Verne, California, teacher Stephanie Fincher helps her students practice blending onset and rime using manipulatives to represent the sounds.
At Stillmeadow Elementary in Stamford, Connecticut, reading coach Elke Blanchard of Literacy How teaches her students to find clues in the text of a story and combine them with their own knowledge to make inferences about what the story is about.