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How to Teach R-Controlled Syllables

By thisreadingmama 5 Comments

If your learners are ready for R-Controlled Syllables {or sometimes called Bossy R Syllables, then this video and freebie are for you!

Find all the freebies and videos in our series, Tips for Teaching Syllable Types.

How to Teach R-Controlled Syllables - This Reading Mama

 

*Scroll down to the bottom of this post to find the teal download button for the freebie.

How to Teach R-Controlled Syllables

If your learners can read words like bird, her, and fork, they may be ready to learn how to apply that knowledge to read longer words like yogurt, hermit, and burger.

Unfortunately, it’s not that always simple for our struggling readers. It’s important that we teach R-Controlled syllables in an explicit way, breaking down the process of decoding so all our readers can be successful. That’s what you’ll find in this video, How to Teach R-Controlled Syllables. I encourage you to…

1. Watch the Video to Learn:

  • How to make your instruction build off what learners already know
  • A step-by-step process* learners can use to help them break apart and successfully read words with bossy r syllables.

*The steps share in this video come from the things I learned while getting my grad certificate in Dyslexia and LBLD and two curricula based on Orton-Gillingham- Wilson Reading and All About Reading.

2. Snag the Freebies:

Snag the FREE Read & Divide printables at the very end of this post. They’ll give your learners a NO PREP way to practice reading real and nonsense r-controlled syllables.

 

Scroll below and click the teal button to grab your freebie! Then make sure to hop over and grab our 6 Syllable Types Interactive Pages for even more syllable learning!

 

 

Enjoy teaching syllables!
~Becky

 

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Filed Under: Phonics and Word Study, Struggling Readers Tagged With: MSW

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Comments

  1. Vicki says

    February 9, 2020 at 2:54 pm

    Thank you for this. My students will enjoy the larger words.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      February 9, 2020 at 3:35 pm

      You’re welcome! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Danielle says

    April 4, 2021 at 10:09 pm

    Amazing! Thank you! I have a question about the syllable divide for the Australian spelling of Yoghurt. would it be /gh/ together or g & h seperated?

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      October 15, 2021 at 9:23 pm

      Typically, you keep digraphs together, so I’m going to assume it would be yo-ghurt. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Megan says

    April 20, 2021 at 4:06 pm

    Thank you for these detail instructions! As a homeschool mom of a dyslexic child who has learned through the years about the OG method – its always helpful to have recourses and information to help me help my child. These are so important and you are doing amazing things for kids like my child!

    Reply

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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