Spelling Rules
Syllable Types
Suffixes
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Syllable Division/Spelling
100

If you have a one-syllable word, with a short vowel, that ends in an f, l, s, z, it's called a?

Floss Rule

100

This syllable type has at least one consonant after only one vowel.  What is it and what does the vowel say?

A closed syllable. The vowel says it's short sound.

100

This suffix means happening now.  

Vowel suffix -ing.

100

What is LLP?  Say the chant.

Listen Learning Position.  One, two, three, four!

How do we look like Thor?  Hands on our desk and feet on the floor.  This is how we look like Thor!

100

How would you divide the word.

Carpet

CAR PET

200
Two syllable word, with one medial consonant sound after a short vowel is called?

The rabbit rule

200

This syllable type ends in one vowel.  The vowel is accented and long so we code it with a macron.  What is it and what does the vowel say?

Open Syllable.  The vowel says its long sound.

200

This Suffix means more than one.  What is it and give the two sounds?

Consonant suffix s (s) & (z)
200

What is WOW and give examples.

Watch Our Writing.

200

How would you divide this word?

ACORN

A CORN

300

If my baseword ends in one vowel and one consonant, and I'm adding a vowel suffix, I do this.

doubling the consonant before adding the suffix.  Doubling Rule.

300

This is when my word ends in one-vowel, one consonant, and a silent e.  The e is silent cross it out.  The vowel is long, code it with a macron.  What syllable type is it and what does the vowel say.

V-Consonant-e syllable.  The e is silent and the vowel is long.

300

This suffix means "happened in the past".  Give all three sounds and tell how to know when it will make those sounds.  

Vowel Suffix -Ed (ed) (d) (t)

(ed) - baseword will end in a "d" or a "t"

(t) - baseword ends with an unvoiced sound

(d) - baseword ends with a voiced sound

300

What is SOS

Save Our Spelling.

Look and Listen

Echo and Think

Name the letters.....

300

How would you divide

Basic

BA SIC

400

If my word ends in a silent e and I'm adding a vowel suffix, it's called?

The dropping rule

400

This syllable type has one "r" after a vowel.  What type of syllable is it?  Give examples.

Vowel-R syllable type

400

This suffix means "quality of"

Consonant suffix -ness

400

What is our IRD card deck?

Initial Reading Deck.

400

What do you need for the (k) sound in a two-syllable word before an "e".  Give examples.

ck; as in pocket, jacket, locket

500

If my baseword ends in a consonant and then a y, I do this before adding a suffix that does not start with the letter "i".

Changing Rule.

500

This is a syllable that ends in an Consonant-le.  What syllable type is it and give examples.

Final Stable Syllable

500

This suffix means made of or to make?

Vowel suffix -en

500

What is initial position in a word

Beginning

500

What do you need in the final position after twin vowels for the (k) sound?

k

M
e
n
u