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By Dr. Stephanie Brenner

Do you have sesquipedalophobia? Do your students have sesquipedalophobia?

Just now, how did you approach reading the final word in each of the previous sentences?

Did you totally skip it, thinking its meaning and importance would be revealed later? Did you start at the beginning and try each part but did not blend it all together? Did you look for parts you recognized and piece it all together?

Or were you fortunate enough to already know the word?

Reading big words strategy

No matter your approach, I almost guarantee your students use all of the above strategies at any given time with varied success. It is safe to assume that if highly educated, well-read adults use those strategies, why would we think students are any different?

In case you were wondering, the final word of the sentence means “fear of long words” and has eight syllables: ses-qui-pe-da-lo-pho-bi-a.

Everyone Faces Unknown Words

Every reader will eventually come to a word they do not know.

Being confronted with an unknown word, especially if

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