Grade 2 English Language Arts · Level 1, Decode, spell, and read Grade 2 text with increasing automaticity and self-correction.

Break Two-Syllable Words

Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words, including words with long-vowel patterns, by chunking into readable parts.

How the lesson starts: Break Two-Syllable Words

Bix chops big words
Meet Bix the beaver. Bix chops big logs into small pieces. Today Bix chops big words too! Small word chunks are easy to read. Ready? Let's chop!
Where to chop
Look in the middle of napkin. P and K sit side by side. Chop between them. Nap, kin. Now try paper. Only one letter sits in the middle. Chop before it. Pa, per!
Pick the best chop
Bix tries three ways to chop basket. Ba, sket sounds odd. Bask, et sounds odd too. S and K sit in the middle, so chop between them. Bas, ket. That's the best chop!