Chapter 11 - When Kids Can't Read

"Suggestion #5: Teach Chunking. Chunking a word means dividing long words into more manageable chunks... Sometimes those chunks are syllables; often they are smaller words or prefixes and suffixes that we hope students recognize. It helps many readers work through long words." Page 235

I remember learning large words like this. I had forgot about that until I read this section. My teacher called in dividing. She told us that we don't remember phone numbers as one group of numbers, like 1244324321. We divide them up , like 124-432-4321. So why can't we do the same with words? She had us take off prefixes and suffixes and find the word then add them back on. It made long words a lot less intimidating for me.