It’s Game Time: Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Ask students to brainstorm a list of words that have the R-controlled vowel combination.
• Write students’ ideas on the board.
• Tell students that today they are going to focus on multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowel combinations.
• Tell students that multisyllabic words are words with more than one syllable.
• Look through the students’ brainstormed list and ask students to identify whether or not any of these words are multisyllabic.

Guided Practice

• Write ar, er, ir, or, and ur at the top of chart paper.
• Ask students to brainstorm a list of multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowel combinations and write their ideas under each heading.
• Write the world garlic on the board. Tell students that this word has two syllables and two vowels. Since the R follows the A, the ar should stay together in the same syllable. Therefore, garlic is divided as gar/lic.
• Call on students to come to the chart paper and practice dividing the multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels on their brainstormed list.
• Tell students that they should use this technique of breaking up a word by its syllables if they need assistance decoding a word.

Independent working time

• Tell students that they will be using multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels to create and play their own board games.
• Show students the Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels Board Game template and instruct them to fill in the blank squares with one multisyllabic word that has an R-controlled vowel.
• Once they are done completing the board game, tell them to find a partner and take turns playing each other’s game.
• Refer students to the instructions at the top of the board game page if they have questions about how to play the game.