Syllables Spell Success Lessons

 A transformative 10-lesson course proven to boost reading levels. It starts with basic syllable and spelling skills, and advances to complex phonics with Greek and Latin roots and syllabic phonics. The syllabic phonics teaches multi-syllable phonics ending with 12th grade level words. Video makes it easy for anyone to teach.

Transcript

For those wanting to teach at a different pace or want to teach without the videos, there is a Syllables Spell Success Transcript. You can also use this transcript to figure out how to integrate the higher level morphology and syllabic phonics teaching into your phonics program.

Games

Each lesson has a phonics game time included, games are free to print:

Phonics Concentration Game: one copy for every 3 to 4 students, paper and pencil to score each group game.

Greek and Latin Bingo: One bingo card and one master root sheet for each student, one word root document for each volunteer.

 Optional Hebrews Passages

You can also add in Hebrews 12 Passages to track your progress.

Testing

it is important to have an idea of each student’s reading grade level and reading fluency. The MWIA is a useful test for showing the degree of guessing problems and problems from balanced literacy instruction. Our How To Teach video #3 linked below explains how to give the tests.

40L Reading Grade Level Test. Print one copy per each student and each volunteer, each student needs a blank test to read. Volunteers test the students one by one and end up with a scored copy for each student.

40L Reading Fluency Test. One copy per each student and each volunteer, score copy for each student.

MWIA. The Grade Level test scores will determine if you use the MWIA 1 or 3. Usually, younger students will need the MWIA 1 and older students the MWIA 3. One copy of the MWIA for each student and volunteer.

Video Links

The Syllables Spell Success videos are individually linked by lesson number below. Click on the picture of each lesson to go to the video. They are also all arranged in order in our Syllables Spell Success video playlist on YouTube. We hope you have a much success with these lessons as our volunteers and students have!

The purple videos are for parents and teachers or tutors together, to watch and then do the associated readings or syllable division exercises or worksheets. 

The blue videos below are for a teacher or tutor or volunteer director to watch to see how to teach the lessons and how to find students and set up a group class. Most of the things covered in the video series below are also in the Syllables Spell Success Teacher’s Guide.