Open or Closed?
gym
closed syllable
gentle
gentle (soft g)
pumpkin
closed syllable (kin)
mean
vowel team (ea)
pencil
pen-cil
habit
closed
giant
giant (soft g)
middle
consonant+le
(-dle)
joyful
diphthong (oy)
discover
dis-cov-er
princess
Closed Syllable
cactus
cactus (hard c---hard c goes with a,o,u)
blackbird
r-controlled
teacher
Vowel Team (ea)
purple
pur-ple
crazy
open syllable
circus
circus (soft c--first syllable (ci) and hard c for the second syllable a,o,u)
restrain
Vowel Team (ai)
boiling
Diphthong (oi)
grandfather
grand-fath-er
tomato
Open Syllable
celery
celery (soft c ---ce)
cartoon
Vowel Team (oo)
shouting
Dipthong (ou)
November
No-vem-ber