When my kids auditioned for Mary Poppins, I wondered how will my: apraxic, dyslexic, ADHD child handle this veeeeerrrrrry looooooooonnng word….???
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
14 syllables, 18 Consonants, 16 vowels!
Su per cal i fragil is tic ex pial id o cious!
S-U-P-E-R
C-A-L-I-F
R-A-G-I-L
L-S-T-I-C-E-X-P-I-A-L-I-D-O-C-I-O-U-S
It really is quite atrocious!
But, like Mary Poppins descending upon the streets of London with her umbrella, Structured Literacy glides in and creates order for struggling readers where there had been chaos.
Six syllable patterns hang on the canopy of the English language. An explicit framework categorizes countless syllables and suddenly, vowels, and the sounds they make, clear the storms of confusion.
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye…
