Sounding Out
This Empower™ strategy helps readers break a word into individual sounds and blend them together.
What is the Sounding Out Strategy?
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What is RISE?
This Toronto children's hospital developed Empower™ Reading, an evidence-based program for students with significant reading challenges.
What is The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)?
The bank of words used in the Rhyming Strategy.
What are Key Words?
Sh, Ch, Squ, are all examples of these blends
what are consonant blends?
Empower™ Reading teaches a special strategy—“Sound It Out”—to help students decode these essential building blocks of language.
What are words (or phonemes)?
We shorten a word to COMM
What is Communication?
The spelling pattern "ain" would use which key work-
What is the word rain?
This Empower™ decoding strategy teaches students to remove prefixes and suffixes before reading the base word.
What is the Peeling Off Strategy?
This letter is known sometimes as being pushy
What is pushy E?
The Peeling Off Strategy is especially effective for reading this type of word—ones made up of meaningful parts.
What are multisyllabic (or morphologically complex) words?
The ED suffix makes 3 sounds
What is D, T and ED?
This is the year Empower™ was recognized and trademarked by SickKids.
What is 2006?
Words like unhappy and teacher can be easier to read when a student peels off these affixes first.
What are prefixes and suffixes?
Words with the same spelling pattern using do this
What is rhyme?