Do your students get stuck on multi-syllable words? Do they tend to leave off word endings? Do your students take the time to read through the entire word? 'Crunch & Munch' is a great strategy for helping students decode challenging words, especially words with tricky prefixes and suffixes. I find that my younger students, who understand and use the basic decoding strategies (e.g., Beanie Baby strategies), transition to more challenging words and then get STUCK... again. They either give up or end up guessing using whatever few visual clues they can attend to quickly. Too often, the students are not visually monitoring