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Grade 3 Reading & Writing · World 1: Word Detective Agency · Level 6
Big Words: Read and Spell
Three- and four-syllable words (fan-tas-tic, re-mem-ber, cat-er-pil-lar): read part by part and spell syllable by syllable.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 6
- Big words look scary, but detectives break them into parts. Each part is a syllable you already know how to read.
- Find the vowels, split between the syllables, and read one part at a time: fan, tas, tic. Then put them together: fantastic!
- Caterpillar has four parts: cat, er, pil, lar. Read each one, then say them faster and faster until it sounds like the word.
- To spell a big word, do the opposite: say it slowly, and spell one syllable at a time.
- Your turn! Tap every gap where umbrella splits.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 3.F.P.4.b — Decode and encode single-syllable and multisyllabic words of all syllable types.