Phonics for Older Students Multi-Syllable Compound Words With VCe: Phonics, Fluency, Comprehension, Word Work, Interactive Notebook (Phonics Practice for Older Students)

This is a No Prep Phonics Workbook for older struggling readers concentrating on VCe. This program helps students learn multi-syllable words through phonics practice. This unit concentrates on VCe words. It contains fluency, reading comprehension, word work, teaching pages, interactive workbook pages, assessments and more. This program is standards-based and aligned with the Science of Reading.

This program works for resource, whole class, RTI, summer school, resource and more. If you are using this program with more than one student – partner up. Partnering students is engaging and lets everyone participate. This program helps students build confidence while reinforcing learning; additionally, by reading, tracking and reading again, student exposure to each passage is maximized.

Multisyllabic Word Reading Research

To progress in reading, students must have strategies for decoding big words. From fifth grade on, the average student encounters about 10,000 new words each year. Most of these words are multisyllabic - yet struggling readers often do not have enough exposure to systematic practice (Nagy and Anderson 1984). This resource provides such practice.

It is helpful for students to be familiar with the common rules for syllable division. Knowing these rules and being able to apply them flexibly will help students decode longer multisyllabic words (Carreker 2005; Henry 2010b).

According to Shefelbine and Calhoun 1991, “Low decoders, correctly pronounced fewer affixes and vowel sounds, disregarded large portions of letter information and were two to four times more likely to omit syllables.”

Several studies have shown that teaching students strategies for decoding longer words improves their decoding ability. (Archer et al. 2006; Archer 2018.) This resource is game changing.