Big words aren’t scary — they’re just chunks.
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Chunk It Break a long word into beats you can read one at a time. 
Word Parts Snap a word together from its parts and find its meaning. 
Read for Meaning Read a little page and show what it means. 
Keep Practicing A mixed round that brings back what you've learned. Read & build
Chunk It Hear a long word, tap the beats, then split it into chunks you can read one at a time. Word Parts Build a word from its parts — a prefix, a root, a suffix — and find out what it means. Smooth Reading Read a sentence the way you would SAY it — group the words into phrases so it flows, not choppy word-by-word. Word Detective Meet a tricky word, then hunt for the CLUE in the sentence — a meaning, a matching word, an opposite, or an example — to unlock what it means. Main Idea Read a short passage, then pick what it is MOSTLY about — not just one small detail.
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Count the Beats Chunk It Syllable Types Front Parts End Parts Word Roots The Big Idea Reading Tools Read Between the Lines What It Really Means Read It Like You Mean It
Mixed practice — revisit what you've learned 🌏 Read in your language
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Meet the cast — the characters who teach this
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Sonny Fluency + prosody (hero) — a small warm-gold lark who reads aloud smooth and with feeling, letting sentences rise and fall like a song; the music of reading IS fluency, never speed -
Chunk Multisyllabic decoding — a happy chipmunk with full cheeks who claps a long word into syllable beats and cracks it open one bite at a time (ed-u-ca-tion) -
Morpho Morphology — a butterfly who opens a word like wings into its parts (un + happy + ness) and builds new words from prefix, root, and suffix -
Verba Vocabulary — a rainbow parrot with a word-satchel who catches a new word's meaning from its neighbors and its parts, then collects it -
Gist Comprehension (informational) — a golden owl who finds the one big idea a whole page is about and the key details that hold it up, always with text evidence -
Vera Inference + figurative (literary) — a clever cat who reads what a story shows but doesn't say, and untangles what a phrase really means, from clues in the text -
Marley Mentor — a broad, calm badger who keeps the Reading Den; frames each skill as safe, offers read-aloud always, and treats a stumble like a sneeze — normal, never a failure