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Divide everything into syllables:   eve-ry-thing
Primary syllable stress:   eve-ry-thing
Secondary syllable stress:   eve-ry-thing
How to pronounce everything:   ev-ree-thing
How to say everything:   everything syllables

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• all hear the syllables in all

• sum hear the syllables in sum

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• the lot

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• anything hear the syllables in anything
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6 Syllable Types: Everything to Know & Examples

Science of Reading | Syllables

ByKatie June 22, 2022September 7, 2022

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Learn all about the 6 syllable types in the English language: Closed, Open, Magic E, Vowel Team/Diphthong, R-controlled, and Consonant+le. Knowing these types of syllables will help readers decode and spell words with accuracy! Get lots of examples of each syllable type, plus get a FREE printable pdf chart with graphics for reinforcement.

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Table of Contents

• Are There 6 or 7 Syllable Types?
• Teaching Syllable Types
• Tips & Info
• Printable Anchor Chart

Are There 6 or 7 Syllable Types?

According to Webster’s Dictionary, a syllable is, “A letter, or combination of letters, uttered together, or at a single effort or impulse of the voice.” It is important to note that every syllable must include a vowel!

And if you’re just learning about syllable types, you may wonder, are there six or seven syllable types?

All experts agree that there are at least 6 syllable types in English:

1. Closed
2. Open
3. Magic E (VCe)
4. Vowel teams/Diphthong
5. R-Controlled
6. Consonant+le

Some popular programs and prominent leaders in the field of reading include a seventh syllable type called a Diphthong Syllable.

Diphthongs are glided vowels (like oi or ow) where one’s mouth glides when saying the sound. However, it is perfectly acceptable among language experts to combine vowel team and diphthongs and consider them one syllable type.

Noah Webster, the man who regularized syllables for the first American English dictionary, recognized only six syllable types. Plus, children today don’t necessarily need to know the difference between a vowel team and a diphthong.

For all intents and purposes, vowel team and diphthongs syllables can be combined and recognized as the same. For these reasons, we will stick with “Webster’s Way” and refer to only six syllable types.

Teaching Syllable Types

Why is it important that students know syllable types? It adds powerful tools to every reader’s toolbox!

Knowing syllable types helps students in two key ways:

• It helps children break words into smaller, more manageable parts. This allows them to correctly pronounce and read longer, multisyllabic words.
• It helps children spell. They explain spelling generalizations, like doubling consonants or dropping the e.

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This gives kids a solid understanding of our language system and helps them to quickly determine the vowel sound in each syllable. Ultimately, it helps lead children to better decoding and spelling skills and equips young readers for success.

Follow a systemic plan for teaching phonics skills in order to introduce syllables (I use Recipe for Reading). Ideally, teaching closed and open syllables should begin at the end of kindergarten (when teaching CVC words) and continue on through 3rd grade.

The progression should continue with magic e vowel teams, r-controlled, and consonant+le throughout first and continued into second grade and third grade. If you work with older students, you can quickly cover these syllable types and provide intervention as needed based on the deficits you assess.

Examples of Syllable Types

Below we’ll outline the six kinds of syllables in English and provide lots of clear examples. These include closed, open, magic E, vowel teams/diphthong, R-controlled, and consonant+le.

Closed Syllable

A closed syllable includes one vowel, and the vowel is closed in by one or more consonants. The vowel will be short.

Imagine a closed door. When the consonant ‘closes in’ the vowel, it makes the vowel short.

🚪 Closed Syllable Word Examples:

• One syllable Words: cat, pet, hit, on, hush, and, red, lip, chin, hatch, fudge, pick, jazz, chuck.
• Two Syllable Words: fos/sil, bon/net, pub/lic, com/plex, ab/stract, jack/pot, bed/bug, trel/lis.
• Three Syllable Words: fan/tas/tic, At/lan/tic, in/cum/bant, in/trin/sic, dis/con/nect, ap/pen/dix

In a study of over 17,000 common English words, Margaret Stanback (1992) found that over 43% of syllables in English are closed syllables, so it’s important for kids to master this syllable type first.

• To learn more about closed syllables and how to teach them (plus 3 free worksheets to practice) visit this post on closed syllables.
• For a free printable with 80+ closed syllable words, organized by short vowels, visit this post on closed syllables.
• For 4 free printable lists of multisyllabic closed syllable words, visit this post on VC/CV words.

Open Syllable

An open syllable is a syllable that ends in a vowel. Because no consonants are closing in the vowel, the syllable is open and the vowel will be long.

Knowing the rules of these first two syllable types will tell a child how to read the word ‘robot’ word correctly.

1. ro is an open syllable = long vowel sound.
2. bot is a closed syllable = short vowel sound.
3. Put them together and read robot! 🤖

In the same study mentioned above, Stanback (1992) found that about 29% of syllables in English are open syllables.

Readers need to be able to identify this prevalent syllable type beginning in first grade as they learn long vowel sounds.

👐 Open Syllable Word Examples:

• One Syllable Words: no, go, l, me, be, yo, dry, he, sly, why, she, me, so.
• Two Syllable Words: a/go, ro/dent, car/go, pro/tect, ba/con, o/ver, so/lo, ra/zor, u/nit.
• Three Syllable Words: ro/de/o, u/til/ize, vi/o/lin, pi/o/neer, po/ta/to, i/o/dine, I/o/wa, ra/di/o.

👉 Learn more about open and closed syllables, with tips on how to teach them and 3 free worksheets to practice.
👉 Get our free printable open syllables list with 64+ open syllable words, organized by 1, 2, and 3 syllables.

Open and closed syllables together account for nearly three-fourths of syllables represented in English words. Stanback (1992) says, “The other syllable types, although they occur relatively less often, are still found in large numbers of words.”

Magic E (VCe) Syllable

Magic E syllables are syllables that follow the Vowel-Consonant-E pattern. This is why they’re sometimes called VCe syllables. They can also be called Silent E syllables or Bossy E syllables. These VCe syllables are found at the end of syllables or words.

In these syllables, the E has two jobs:

1. The E stays silent! 🤐
2. It jumps back over one consonant and makes the vowel says its long sound (or its name).

🧙‍♀️ Magic E (VCe) Syllable Word Examples:

• One Syllable Words: tape, here, tile, home, puke, ape, Pete, pipe, mule, theme, cave, hose.
• Two Syllable Words: in/side, e/lope, ex/clude, ig/nite, tad/pole, mis/take, land/scape, cup/cake.
• Three-Syllable Words: in/cub/ate, en/vel/ope, il/lus/trate, su/per/vise, lem/on/ade, an/te/lope.

👉 Get our free printable with 75+ VCe words with pictures, organized by long vowels.
👉 For additional multisensory practice with one syllable VCe words, use these free and fun Magic E Wand Printables.
👉 These Silent E worksheets are great to reinforce VCe words, and include both one and two syllable words.

Vowel Team/Diphthong Syllable

A vowel team is two vowels working together to make one sound. Common examples are: ai (ā), ay (ā), ee (ē), ea (ē), oa (ō), oe (ō), ow (ō), and ew (ū).

A diphthong is a gliding vowel. It’s called gliding because the mouth starts at one position and moves to another as the sound is made.

Try it with these diphthongs: aw/au, ew/oo, oi/oy, ow/ou. Sometimes, the letter ‘w’ or ‘y’ teams up with a vowel to create a diphthong.

Vowel Team/Diphthong Syllable Examples:

R-Controlled Syllable

An R-Controlled syllable has a vowel followed immediately by the letter R. The letter R controls the vowel and creates a new sound. R-Controlled vowels do not say their long or short sound. These syllables are sometimes called Bossy R Syllables.

Children will need to recognize the Vowel + R within the syllable and know the new sound that is created.

• Ar says /ar/ like car.
• Er, Ir, Ur all say /ər/ like her, bird, or nurse.
• Or says /or/ like corn.

The R-Controlled vowels can be found at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a syllable.

® R Controlled Syllable Examples:

• One Syllable Words: car, her, bird, corn, nurse, art, hurt, curl, Bert, sir, arm, firm.
• Two Syllable Words: stut/ter, car/pet dirt/y, tur/key per/fume, west/ern, tar/get.
• Three-Syllable Words: Am/ster/dam, sus/pen/ders, chat/ter/box, vet/er/an.

👉 Get our printable list of 150+ Bossy R words organized by vowels and syllables.
👉 Get 4 R Controlled worksheets to help reinforce R-controlled syllables and include both one and two-syllable words.

Consonant+le Syllable

This syllable type occurs at the end of a syllable. The consonant+le is its own syllable. The -le will make the /əl/ sound, which sounds like /ŭl/.

Common examples of consonant+le syllables that appear at the end of multisyllabic words are -ble, -dle, -tle, -gle, -ple, -fle, -kle, -cle.

The jingle students say for this syllable type is, “Consonant+le, Count back three.”

Knowing this syllable type helps students in a variety of ways. First, they’ll always know where to break the word to divide into syllables. They’ll look for the pattern, consonant+le, and then count back three. That’s where they’ll break the word.

Next, it will help students when spelling words. Knowing this consonant type tells us whether or not the middle consonant is doubled

Example: bub/ble must have two b’s in the middle, otherwise, the first syllable would be open and it would say bū/ble.

Consonant+LE Syllable Examples:

• a/ble, rid/dle, lit/tle, bog/gle, ap/ple, ri/fle, pic/kle, crin/kle, un/cle, pan/han/dle, as/sem/ble

Tips & Info

• Download our free chart below, and use it as an anchor in your classroom! For best results, print 18 X 24 or larger.
• You can also print it on standard-sized paper and staple it into your student’s phonics notebook for a quick reference or cheat sheet to use when reading or spelling words.
• Many statistics presented in the post come from this article: Stanback, M. L. (1992). Syllable and Rime Patterns for Teaching Reading: Analysis of a Frequency-Based Vocabulary of 17,602 Words. Annals of Dyslexia, 42, 196–221. Retrieved from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23768001.

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Dividing into syllables for preschoolers ✅ Blog IQsha.ru

Why divide words into syllables?

There are different methods of teaching reading. Most of them suggest going from simple to complex: first learn the letters, and then sequentially combine them into words, sentences and texts. How to teach a child to divide words into syllables is the main issue for the successful formation of reading and writing skills.

Why is this so important?

• division into syllables makes it easier to read long words;

• helps with phonetic analysis;

• trains the correct transfer from one line to another.

If this skill is successfully mastered, you can proceed to the next stage - reading whole words in one breath.

Why is it difficult to teach preschoolers to divide words into syllables?

It may seem to an adult that this is a very simple skill that can be taught even to a non-reading child. But not everything is so simple: often preschoolers do not have the skill of pure speech. Children confuse voiced and deaf sounds and cannot pronounce them clearly.

Getting to know the letters in their alphabetical pronunciation will be a big mistake. If you call the letters “em”, “sha”, “en”, then it will be very difficult for the baby to explain later why they sound differently in the word “ma-shi-na”.

What difficulties can be encountered in learning:

• ignorance of letters;

• speech defects;

• misunderstanding of the difference between sound and letter;

• inability to count to five;

• no sense of rhythm;

• misunderstanding what the word means, the inability to recognize it in the picture.

First you need to eliminate all the difficulties and only then proceed to the formation of a skill.

How to explain the division of words into syllables to a preschooler?

Clearly plan the process and the entire sequence of actions. It is not necessary to set a specific time frame, because each child masters the skill at an individual pace.

Prepare in advance games and additional materials in the form of flashcards and magnetic ABCs. Children perceive new knowledge visually much better, and they also like to touch three-dimensional letters and make phrases out of them.

Look at a simple algorithm and you will understand how to explain the division into syllables to a child without nerves and special education:

1. Show what a syllable is
Draw two letters using cubes, magnetic alphabet or cards , and connect them. To make it more interesting, come up with a fascinating story: two sounds met and sang a song together: "maaaaa." This song turned out because there is a vowel sound “a”. Without it, it would not have been possible to sing, so the vowel sound is an important participant in the meeting.

2. Show what syllables are
Put a vowel and a consonant next to each other and, rearranging them, begin to introduce the child to the types of syllables: open, closed, reverse and complex.

3. Make a disyllabic word
Ask how many vowels are there? Count them by touching each with your finger. How many vowels, so many syllables.

4. Move on to games.

Subsequent sessions begin with a brief repetition, gradually complicating the material. For training, we do not recommend giving preschoolers incomprehensible and long words that cannot be supported by a picture.

Syllable Rules

To stimulate cognitive interest and keep the desire to learn, do not use incomprehensible and difficult rules in the lessons. An adult should know them in order to prevent mistakes and explain new material in an accessible way.

The question of how to correctly divide words into syllables in Russian is periodically reviewed in scientific circles. The current approach is:

1. The syllable begins with a consonant: so-ba-ka. An exception is the consonant sound Y (lay-ka).

2. Deaf, hissing and voiced sounds belong to the next syllable. This rule is surprising in adults, because they used to teach differently. Now the division looks like this: sha-shka, mi-shka.

3. That's not all: from now on, double consonants are not separated when pronouncing: leaf-ve-ny, a-kku-rat-ny. On the letter, the hyphenation rule remained unchanged.

4. Each syllable has room for only one vowel.

5. Unpaired voiced consonants (p, l, n, m) close syllables in the middle of a word.

Games for dividing words into syllables

Teachers have simplified the learning of this important skill and developed many effective tasks in a playful way that can be easily used both at home and in the lessons in a developing studio or kindergarten.

Clap the word game

The facilitator shows a picture and says in one breath what is shown on it. Players must clap their hands as many times as there are syllables. To consolidate and maintain interest, give the participants words with a different number of syllables. Such a game will help you remember the division into complex syllables, and you can also organize it for 2-5 people or arrange a competition with collecting chips for the correct answers.

Game "How many syllables - so many steps"

An adult asks players to name words on a certain topic, for example, birds. The queue members call them and take as many steps forward as there are syllables in their word. The one with the longest word wins. If the number of steps is the same, then the game continues. An additional bonus can be given for the ability to correctly stress. As a result of such entertainment, children dynamically and effectively work out the skill of dividing into syllables and expand their vocabulary.

The game "Who will collect the most pictures"

You show pictures and name words of one or two syllables, and the players in response raise the number 1 or 2 or one or two hands. The one who completed the task correctly the fastest gets the picture. Then the game is complicated by the inclusion of three- and four-syllable words. This lesson perfectly trains the ability to quickly and mentally divide words into syllables, and also develops auditory perception.

Add a syllable game

The facilitator gives the children cards with the first parts of two-syllable words. The participants lay them out in front of them, and the adult reads the second part aloud. The task of the child is to understand whether the named syllable is suitable to complete the word. If yes, then the kid takes the card. The winner is the one who collects all the words faster. Please note: syllables must be only open and consist of two letters. Such a game helps to master the skill of reading and will clearly show the division into syllables.

How to train the division of words into syllables with a preschooler?

Oral explanation must be constantly reinforced with practice through games and fun activities. Regular lessons will bring this skill to automatism. The most effective teaching method is considered to be a combination of simple written and oral exercises.

Oral exercises to reinforce the skill of dividing words into syllables

• "Pick the word"
  Place cards with letters in front of the child so that they form a word. Now ask the kid to correctly divide it into syllables.
• Feel It
  To learn to hear the syllables, ask the child to place his hand horizontally on the larynx. Then say the word together and count how many times the chin dropped. Each downward movement means one syllable.
• "Create a Melody"
  Hand out crayons to the children and have them pretend they are drumsticks. Say the word and have the young musicians knock on the table as many times as they hear the syllables.

Syllable writing exercises

• Color the Words
  Give the children sheets of words written in different sizes and fonts. The task of the children is to paint each syllable in a different color.
• Divide the words
  Write different words on a piece of paper or board and ask the child to divide them into syllables using vertical lines.
• Dots-boats
  Write a word on a card and divide it into syllables with vertical lines. Then disassemble each part: mark the consonant + vowel below with a smooth line (boat), and mark the closing consonant in a closed syllable with a dot. This task helps to form word schemes and trains the skill of fluent reading.

It is not difficult to teach a child to divide words into syllables if you turn each lesson into a game and a fun quest that brings pleasure and good mood to all participants.

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Dividing words into syllables - rules, examples, schemes

Dividing words into syllables is performed in accordance with the number of vowel sounds, and also taking into account the peculiarities of the sound composition of words.

This article will focus on the phonetic syllable, how to correctly divide words into syllables. We take into account that the phonetic division into syllables does not always coincide with the spelling of words.

What is a syllable?

In speech, all words of the Russian language consist of minimal sounding units - syllables. Let's define what a phonetic syllable is.

Definition

The phonetic syllable is the smallest unit of speech that consists of a vowel or a vowel with one or more consonants. The syllable is pronounced with one push of exhaled air.

A vowel forms a syllable. A syllable always has only one vowel. It can independently create a phonetic syllable, as well as in combination with one or more consonants. The consonants cluster around a single vowel. In this regard, according to the sound composition, three types of syllables are distinguished:0006

1. The syllable is one vowel sound:

• A-DRES
• I-DOG
• O-STROV

U-KORK

• ONO-TO
• CO-LO-MA

SO-RO-RO-KA

3. The syllable forms a vowel with several consonants:

• red
• stars
• trade

Open and closed syllables

Syllables are open and closed. In the words of the Russian language, most syllables are open. Open syllables organize all vowels alone or combined with consonant sound:

• Oh-kun
A-IR
• BO-LOCHO BO-LOCHO BO-LOCHO BO-LOCHE

  In the ONE-KNO-KNE-KONO ONE-KOLO-KOLO-KOLOOLO-KOLOOLO-KOLOOLO-KOLOOLO-KOLOLO-COM

closed syllables form all consonants at the end of the words:

• Nail
• COV
• CHO-RAM

  Unpaired voiced consonants [d'], [l], [l'], [m], [m'], [n], [n'], [p], [p'] can form a closed syllable in any phonetic position: at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of words:

  • zer-ka-lo
  • bol-tic
  • sa-rai-chik
  • sa-ra-fan

  Words are divided into phonetic syllables according to the number of vowels. A word contains as many syllables as it has vowels. One vowel surrounded by consonants creates a monosyllabic word that is not divided into syllables:0215 Waltz

BROD

To be divided into syllables, it should have at least two vowels that form two-syllable words:

• Yi-Zhik
DO-Mike
900
• sa-lat
• rabbit

0216

when dividing by syllables, we take into account that the syllable ends with vocalities, and a group of subsequent noisy consonants, in combination with a sonorant sound or without it, departs at the syllable boundary to the next phonetic syllable:

• 0010 Co-post-ni-e

nni-sny

This syllable division is phonetic, which does not coincide with orthographic hyphenation of words with double consonants.

letters “Y”, “B”, “Kommersant” belong to the syllable, after which they are written:

• Rei
Clap Op-car

Let us indicate the order of dividing words into syllables using the following algorithm.

Algorithm for dividing words into syllables

1. read the word;
2. emphasize vowel sounds;
3. count the number of vowels;
4. let's see if the word has double consonants, unpaired voiced consonants, "b" or "b" ;
5. we divide the word after each vowel into syllables, taking into account the indicated features.

Examples

1. nightingale

This word has 4 vowels that form the same number of syllables. A soft dividing sign is written in the middle. We divide the word into four phonetic syllables. We leave a soft sign after the consonant, indicated by the letter "v" :

co-lov-i-ny

In this word, two syllables are open, and the third and fourth syllables respectively close the voiced consonant "v" and the unpaired voiced consonant, indicated by the letter "th" » .

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