Strategies Accents, schwa, syllables. (12 pages)

Identifying syllables using the OG multi sensory teaching strategy for syllable work. Short vowel words: syllable strategies. Changes in stress/ accents in words and on different syllables affect the meaning of what is being read. Good readers do this automatically. Poor readers don’t. Introducing judgement of accent or stress. Multi sensory teaching of accent awareness: aids fluency. Use of a tape recorder. Skills progression. Tips for hearing the schwa in multi syllable words. Ways to visually represent the varying stress/accents in speech/ written text.