Syllables
open syllable
Playground
play ground
Any two letters that are stuck together making 1 sound
Digraph
Beautiful
Something appealing or pleasant
Latin:
Apart or Away
Dis
The vowel is closed in on one or both sides by a consonant
closed syllable
Romantic
/ch/
Mother
bad
Mal
bone
v-e
Constitution
/ck/
c, k, ck, ch
Please
To make happy or pleasant
Latin root meaning:
with or together
con
bird
explosion
ex plo sion
/ay/
a, a-e, ai, ay
Mountain
A large geologic feature
Min
Small or Little
tion or sion
final stable syllable
Cathedral
Cath E Dral
/ir/
er, ir, ur
Country
pre
before