[Music] do you ever find complicated words when you're reading I know I do I'm Mrs Mora today we'll learn to use vowels and word parts to read and understand multi-lab words Michigan has amazing traditional foods like the Michigan past te is you explore new foods you may come across complicated words the isav strategy helps us read long words isav means every syllable has at least one vowel this is almost always true since a syllable can only have one vowel sound vowels help us break words into parts here's our word first we'll mark all of the vowels which follow do you see here's i e i and e next we'll join any vowel teams into one vowel sound a vowel team is a group of letters that work together to make one sound do you see a vowel team IE may be a vowel team that says e or even I sometimes I and E make make separate vowel sounds but let's join them for now now let's identify known word Parts what do you see here's the prefix n in often means in or into let's count the number of word parts to expect remember almost every syllable has at least one vowel so we'll count the vowel sounds to see how many parts to expect a vowel team counts as one part let's count 1 2 three three parts next we'll break the word into Parts since we counted three vowel sounds we need three parts in is a part because it has one vowel sound a syllable can only have one vowel sound so we'll separate the E and the i e the D could join the second or the third syllable let's try moving the D into this third syllable let's say the word in greent ingredient is that a real word not quite when we first pronounce a word we might need to try different letter sounds to make a real word let's try the I sound instead of e in greant in greant that's still not right H let's separate i and e now we have four parts each with a vowel sound in greent in gradient in this word the I says e and the E makes thewwa sound inred ingredient when we talk about food an ingredient is something we add or mix into what we are preparing ing if you speak Spanish the word ingrediente can help you understand this word great work today keep reading and try the strategy the next time you find a challenging word [Music]