Routine · Longer words
Compound words
Find the two smaller words inside a compound, read each, then read them as one word.
- Time
- 3 to 5 minutes
- Skill
- Longer words
- In a session plan
- Word reading
When to use it
When compound words are taught, usually the first longer words a student reads.
Materials
- The word list
- Cards with small words that join, such as sun, set, cat, fish
Steps
Shown with example words: word sunset; words sunset, bathtub, catfish.
Get ready
Put two small word cards side by side and read them.
I do
Push the two cards together and read the new word. Then show sunset written as one, mark where one small word ends and the next begins, and read it.
Say: Two little words make one big word. I find the line, read each part, then read it together.
We do
Do the next word together: find the two words, split, read.
You do
The student splits and reads each word in sunset, bathtub, catfish, and says how the two parts give the meaning.
Student: Draws the line, reads the parts, reads the word.
Check
Read the list in a new order without lines.
If the student...
Splits the word in the wrong place.
Ask the student to find a small word they know at the start. Move the line after it, read both parts with them, then they read the full word alone.
Tips
- Some compounds hide a pattern the student does not know yet. Check the list first.
- One to one, let the student make silly compounds with the cards and read them.
Example words
- Word
- sunset
- Words
- sunset, bathtub, catfish
Original routines written by Literacy Trail. In the app, every routine is filled with your student's lesson.
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Have this routine filled in for every lesson
In Literacy Trail, the session plan picks a routine for each block and fills it with the words, sounds and sentence from your student's lesson. Every plan starts with a 15-day free trial.