Spot-N-Dot

There is a strategy you can use to help readers decode longer, multisyllabic words. It is called spot and dot.
Here is some information on how to use the strategy from http://littlelearnersinc.blogspot.com/2011/04/reading-strategy-spot-and-dot.html


We can use Spot and Dot to decode longer words. To Spot and Dot, we find the vowels and put a dot over each vowel or each group of vowels. Since every syllable has a a vowel, we look for the syllables around the vowels.

*If the syllable ends with a vowel, usually the vowel says its long sound.
*If the syllable ends with a consonant, we know the vowel makes its short vowel sound.
*If the vowel ends with a consonant, we know the vowel makes its short vowel sound.
*We also know, "When two vowels go walking, the first vowel does the talking."

Writing it out would look something like this: