Any favorite resources for "decoding long words"? (x post)

[SKL]

Miss A could use some structured work in the area of tackling long or challenging words.  Does anyone know of any helpful resources we could use at home?  (Miss A is 7.5 and going into 3rd grade next year.)

[sunnyday]

With my kids I have been pulling syllabication rules out of AAS2 and Uncovering the Logic of English, as well as trying to work through the...third? McGuffey reader.

[Monica_in_Switzerland]

Reading Pathways has "pyramid" exercises for multi-syllable words that are helpful.  They start in the second half of the book or so. 

[chiguirre]

Rewards Intermediate by Sopris worked very well for Geezle when everything else had failed.

[beishan]

I am going to try Rewards Intermediate in summer for my rising 2rd grader as well. Now he is starting to decode some long words but I like to get him structured lesson as well. Hopefully we can bring up his reading level more.

[SKL]

I looked up "rewards" and it seems a little old for Miss A, but I will keep it in mind for next year if things aren't on track.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions!  I ordered Reading Pathways and a few other things.  :)

[forty-two]

This is probably a minority experience, but dd7 had that problem, and we did Reading Pyramids, but it wasn't enough. I gave her the Barton pre-screening, and she failed it (even though she reads above grade level). Explains a lot. Anyway, if your dd has problems orally putting syllables together to say a multisyllable word (which dd7 did, although mostly just on unfamiliar words), in addition to having problems reading them, I'd give her the Barton screening (free, doesn't take long) to see if there's a phonemic awareness issue. I mean, it's really hard to accurately *read* a word if you can't accurately *hear* it in the first place.

[ElizabethB]

http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/WellTaughtPhonicsStudent.html