At Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, teacher DeAngela Huggins wants her students to read longer and harder words, so she gives them the steps they need to break down multisyllabic words. Using the example word “summit,” Ms. Huggins and her students identify vowels and consonants, label them, and “chop” the word into its two syllables. After they figure out the syllable type (open or closed), students know how to pronounce each syllable (long vowel or short vowel). They read each syllable and then combine them to read the whole word fluently. Ms. Huggins takes this lesson further by bringing in the meaning of the word “summit,” so her students are not just decoding but reading with comprehension. (From our sister project, Reading Universe)