Syllables wag l on cot l ton A l las l ka

“…You can’t become a skilled reader unless you know the system.” Linnea Ehri, 2002

Approximately 86% of English words are phonetically regular for spelling 64% of those are made up of 2 syllable patterns Word meaning and word origin help with many words Why Teach Syllable Patterns for Reading & Spelling?

Automatic Processing frimpabruntiveshime

Automatic Processing frimp shime abruntive

Automatic Processing scrayconzaymentyrmhvecnmztnyao

Automatic Processing scray conzayment yrmhv ecnmztnyao

What is a Syllable? “A Syllable is a unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel. It may or may not have consonants before or after the vowel.” “I sure wish somebody had told me that before!” Child Friendly: A syllable is a word or part of a word with one vowel sound. Every syllable has to have at least one vowel. Moats, 2011

C losed L consonant-le O pen V owel team E vowel consonant “e” R - controlled

o o k k r r c c s s k k a a u u l l c c b b w w s s t t e e Closed Syllable Structure: Only one vowel, at least one consonant after the vowel Type of Vowel Sound: Short Vowel is marked with breve trick

OPEN o o g g e e m m u u l l f f y y sh Open Syllable Structure: Only one vowel, at the end of a syllable Type of Vowel Sound: Long Vowel is marked with a macron wewe

t t e e i i m m r r d d e e o o v v th e e a a b b y y p p Vowel-Consonant-e Syllable t t e e Structure: 1 vowel followed by 1 consonant sound followed by an “e” Type of Vowel Sound: Long Vowel is marked with a macron spoke

h h ea t t n n igh t t oi n n c c m m n n oo t t oa b b d d h h ea Vowel-Team Syllable Structure: Two or more vowels together that stand for one vowel sound (may include consonants as in “igh,” “eigh”) Type of Vowel Sounds: variant sounds; long, short, diphthong sound draw

f f ir ar m m f f er or k k n n d d h h oo d d d d th r r ur b b R-Controlled Syllable Structure: 1 or 2 vowels followed by “r” Type of Vowel Sound: r-controlled her

Open Closed t t a a l l e e r r i i l l e e p p a a d d i i g g g g l l e e Various m m l l e e ar b b ee l l e e Consonant-L-e Syllable l l e e b b f f l l e e l l e e d d g g l l e e b b l l e e t t l l e e Structure: Consonant followed by “L” followed by “e”; found at the end of a word unless part of a multi-syllable word Type of Vowel Sound: schwa sim ple

m m a a Consonant-L-e Syllable l l e e p p l l e e p p p p a a p p p p

Syllable Types% of Frequency Closed43.3% Open28.9% Vowel-e6.7% Vowel Team9.5% R-controlled10.2% Consonant-le1.4% Syllable Frequency

Closed -le Open Vowel teams Vowel-e R-controlled pancake pancake pan cake staple staple sta

Word Study: Multisyllable Readers break the syllable between letters that rarely occur in sequence within a syllable. In this word, between g-w and z-p. cagwitzpat cag witz pat

Word Study: Syllable Division

pancake subtract simple Decoding multi-syllabic words 1.Count Vowel (patterns) 2.Ask yourself: How many consonants are there between the vowels? 3.Divide between the consonants (keep blends and diagraphs together) 4.Draw a syllable box for each syllable 5.Apply syllable patterns to word and sound out… pancake subtract simple

Word Study: Decoding Multi-Syllable Words Students use this multisensory method to read compensate confident demonstrate morphemic orthographic compensate confident demonstrate morphemic orthographic

Stake out the Schwa “The schwa is like a vampire; it sucks the sound out of vowels in unaccented syllables, leaving them muffled and lifeless.” Spellography, Moats, Rosow cotton wagon pocket

Teaching Irregular Words was lip Regular word what she Rainbow Spelling see where

Irregular Words: Visualization was

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