Language and Literacy

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Multisyllabic Words

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Town in the Desert One hundred fifty years ago, Families lived here. Children played here. Covered wagons rolled past the gates where cactus flowers bloomed. Now the doors bang in the wind. No one plays here. No one lives here. Dry winds open the broken gates where cactus flowers bloom.

Town in the Desert
One hundred fifty years ago,
Families lived here.
Children played here.
Covered wagons rolled past
the gates where cactus
flowers bloomed.
Now the doors bang in the wind.
No one plays here.
No one lives here.
Dry winds open the broken gates
where cactus flowers bloom.

Study Long Words

How should you divide each word into syllables? Look for the pattern.

  • 1. illustration of a cactus flower plant

    cactus

  • 2. illustration of the numeral one hundred

    hundred

  • 3. photograph of an open gate

    open gate

  • 4. illustration of a pioneer covered wagon

    wagon

  • 5. photograph of a sleeping baby

    asleep