"Multi-syllable word" reading resources

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My daughter is 8, and we live overseas in a non-English speaking country. She goes to the local school and I am responsible for her English literacy education. She is not bad but a little below grade level by the standards of an English school.

We need to work on the reading of longer, multi-syllable words as she often gets a bit lost when trying to sound out new ones. I am feeling a bit lost too as I do not know much about how to teach them! We have always used a synthetic phonics approach as per modern teaching resources (Jolly Phonics followed by Read Write Inc which we have now finished), but I don't know much about this next stage. I'd like some ideas/tips/resources which can help us with improving her reading of these longer words.

We start in reception with compound words the child can spell and read so bat/man , foot/ball, hand/bag before moving onto other words. They decode each part separately then blend the two syllables ...obvious it's slow at first while learning the concept.
Phonics books publish books that split words into their syllables at the bottom of the page to help children decode.

How is her English vocabulary? That might be a limiting factor if she's educated in a different language. Could you try her on rereading books you've already read to her? I'd also get her audiobook for the car etc.

Thanks to PPs. We have done some work with compound wordsI think it's more the words with all the suffixes and affixes that cause issues. "Eventually" "celebration"that kind of thing. If either of you know any workbooks which do some intensive practice, that would be great.

Good call about vocabulary. I actually do not think vocab is much of a limiting factor, as I have worked consciously on exposing her to a very large vocab so her vocab in English is pretty good.

Have a look at Toe by Toe - lots of work on syllabification

Thank you! Will take a look!

issuu.com/kedapublications/docs/toe_by_toe_sample_pages

Hi LaraI just had a look at these sample pages for Toe by Toe. The last page looks like the kind of simple intensive practice sheet that might be helpful (I think practicing words out of context is ideal because when she reads sentences, her decent vocabulary is actually papering over the cracks in her decoding, if you see what I meanshe will sort of have a go and then "guess" a word that sounds similar. But I want her to be able to accurately decode completely unknown words, otherwise she is not going to be able to use reading as a tool for learning new words!).

But I really only want the sort of material that is covered last, most advanced page in this set of sample pages--DD is fine with 1-2 syllable words (including reading random words out of context), and the little errors are only really creeping in when she tackles the words of 3 syllables or above.

I don't suppose Toe by Toe sells any separate sets of worksheets for multi-syllable words only? Or any other companies producing something like that would be great.

Do you work on spelling with her? This may help her reading. There are various online apps she could try.