Vowel-consonant-e syllables end in a final silent e with a consonant just before the silent e. This silent e makes the vowel before it have a long sound. Examples include: home, fine, cute. This syllable should be taught after students know short and long vowel sounds, and closed and open syllables. Learn more about teaching the final silent e here. R-controlled syllables always have at least one vowel followed by r. The r gives it a unique sound.
Some examples are: her, bird, fur, ear, for. This should be taught after open, closed, and VCE syllables. First and second grade are usually when this syllable is taught and practiced. Learn more about teaching the r-controlled syllable here. A diphthong syllable usually has 2 adjacent vowels that are pronounced together.
This produces a special sound; examples include: eight, grow, tail, fight. Notice whether a vowel combination is reversed, such as io in lion. This syllable is also known as a vowel team. This is taught starting in first grade but there are some tricky ones that can be left for second grade.
Learn more about teaching the vowel team syllable here. A consonant- le syllable has no vowel sound. The silent e at the end of the syllable is the only vowel. Only the consonant and the l are pronounced. The single vowel in the open syllable occurs at the end of the word.
What is a closed syllable? A closed syllable is a syllable that has only one vowel and only one vowel sound. A closed syllable ends in a consonant.
A syllable starts with a vowel sound. That vowel most often joins with a consonant, or consonants, to create a syllable. What about these two consonants in the middle? In the word raptor , the [p] is the coda of the first syllable and [t] is the onset of the second syllable, but there are other logical possibilities.
We could just as easily say that the first syllable has a coda cluster [pt], or that the second syllable has an onset cluster [pt]. How does the mental grammar organize consonants in the middle of a multi-syllabic word? There are three consonants [mbl] in the middle of this word, so there are four logical possibilities for how they could be organized.
It could be that all the consonants go in the onset of the second syllable. It could be that they all go in the coda of the first syllable, or they could be divided up between the coda of the first and the onset of the second, with a couple of possible permutations.
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