Dyslexia Awareness Month is a good time to bring special focus to Megawords, a Tier 2 Structured Literacy intervention designed for striving readers—including students with dyslexia—who have moved past foundational decoding and are now ready to develop the advanced word knowledge they need to read and comprehend increasingly complex text.
Through explicit instruction in multisyllabic word reading, spelling, morphology, and word analysis, students learn how to break apart unfamiliar academic words, recognize meaningful patterns, and unlock word meaning.
Why Educators Choose Megawords
Educators appreciate Megawords because it addresses a common barrier to comprehension that is often overlooked in upper grades. Megawords:
- Provides explicit instruction in advanced decoding, encoding (spelling) and morphology.
- Equips students in Grades 4 -12 with strategies for attacking the multisyllabic words that dominate academic texts.
- Helps expand vocabulary, increase fluency, and strengthen comprehension.
- Includes diagnostic assessments and progress-monitoring tools to guide instruction.
- Supports instruction in whole-class, small-group, or individual settings.
Building a Bridge to Comprehension
Reading comprehension depends—in part—on efficiently reading and understanding individual words. Students must be able to read complex vocabulary accurately and efficiently enough to focus on meaning, and Megawords helps strengthen that important bridge to comprehension.
Learn how Megawords can help students move from “That word is too hard...” to “I can read that!”
