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Syllable Types
100
The punctuation mark that is missing from the following sentence: I'm so excited to go to the party tonight
What is an exclamation point?
100
This flexible feat is said to be impossible by all who have tried this upper body stretch.
What is licking your elbows?
100
DVFS is celebrating this anniversary this year.
What is 25 years?
100
safe + ness =
What is safeness?
100
This syllable type has a short vowel sound because there is a vowel closed in by a consonant.
What is a closed syllable?
200
This sentence type is an order or command and ends with a period.
What is an imperative sentence?
200
This famous author wrote 33 plays and dozens of poems that are still read in schools four hundred years after his death.
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
This head of school also has dyslexia.
Who is Pritch Garrett?
200
mad + er =
What is madder?
200
This syllable type has a long vowel sound because of the tricky final silent e.
What is a v-e syllable?
300
This sentence type ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence?
300
This disease is the leading killer of Americans.
What is heart disease?
300
This dean of students used to teach middle school science at DVFS.
Who is Jason Seggern?
300
drop + ed =
What is dropped?
300
This syllable type has a long vowel sound because there is no final consonant.
What is an open syllable?
400
This grammar problem happens when a sentence is missing a subject, verb, or both.
What is a sentence fragment?
400
This President of the United States is the only one to have been born in Pennsylvania.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
400
This program at DVFS allows students to get out of the classroom and learn through adventure and exploration.
What is ABLE?
400
ruminate + ing =
What is ruminating?
400
This syllable type has neither a short vowel or long vowel sound because of the letter that follows the vowel.
What is an R controlled syllable?
500
There are an estimated 400 million of this beloved animal living in the world today.
What is a dog?
500
These four teachers are new to the DVFS middle school this year.
Who are Meredith, Caitlin, Joy, and Cass?
500
These three vowel teams make the long oo sound.
What are oo, ou, eu, ue, ou?
500
This syllable type contains no vowel sound at all.
What is a -Cle syllable?
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