A teacher in a second-grade classroom often plays the following word game with her…

A teacher in a second-grade classroom often plays the following word game with her students. The teacher says a multisyllabic word. The children count the syllables in the word and write the number of syllables on their individual whiteboards. The first child who answers correctly says the word while clapping for each syllable. Then, this child says a new multisyllabic word. This pattern continues as time allows. According to convergent research, oral syllabication activities such as this multisyllabic word game are important because- Group of answer choices discriminating individual syllables in words helps facilitate students’ ability to identify increasingly smaller sounds in words and supports later abilities to read and write multisyllabic words. reading syllables within words helps facilitate students’ understanding of words and accelerates learning how to read and write multisyllabic words. segmenting one-syllable words facilitates students’ learning how to read and write multisyllabic words. practicing articulation of syllables in words helps facilitate students’ learning how to read and write multisyllabic words.