Yesterday, Sami was working on syllabication. I have my children go through all 8 books of Explode the Code and the 1/2 books as well. In many ways, Autumn is a very easy student to teach. But, some of her strengths lead to weaknesses in me. She needs very little correction on her assignments, especially Explode the Code. It clicks for her. So, I never went over the instruction from the book on all of the syllibication rules. Sami is a different learner. She is a kinesthetic learner, so although she does well when learning visually and auditorily, what she's learning doesn't click as quickly as it does for Autumn in the Explode the Code books. Sami is at the end of book 4 and I sat down with her to make a chart of the syllabication rules so we could both figure out together how to divide the words at the end of her book. I have to admit that I never memorized the rules of syllabication, though I don't have any difficulty reading. ...