Chunk words, reading help

At school, when your child is reading a sentence and comes to a word he cannot read, his teacher will tell him to chunk the word.  

To chunk is to look for a smaller word or word part inside a larger word. The word and is an easy chunk. Look for and inside these larger words:
 
candle          demand           sandwich

One of the best ways to help your child build his chunking skills is by practicing rhyming words. This strengthens your child's ability to see these small words inside larger words. Any rhyming word families you can think of will provide practice. Look:

      and                 bell               bill             
      band               dell               dill
      hand               fell                fill
      land                sell               hill
      sand               tell                pill
      stand              well               till

After practicing the rhyming word families above, help your child see how to use little rhyming words to chunk these larger words:

until      thrilling     still    doorbell    smelly    welcome      handlebar     pillow     hillside 

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Write with questions. Help your child have fun reading! Mary Maisner