Syllables
The word FARMER has two of these types of syllables in it.
What is R controlled?
This is the part of a word that you add prefixes and suffixes to.
base or root
These are the three sounds that the vowel team ea makes.
What is: E (eat), A (steak), and e (bread)?
This term is used for two consonants that make one sound.
What is a digraph? (ch, sh, th, wh, ck)
This rule is used when you double the final consonant in a base word before adding a vowel suffix.
What is the 1-1-1 doubling rule?
The word anticipation has this many syllables in it.
What is five?
This prefix means between. (Think flights between countries)
These are the four sounds that letter a can make.
What is: a (cat), A (acorn), /aw/ (all), and /u/ apart
These have a special name: he's, she's we're, they're, it's, won't.
What are contractions?
These letters come after c and g to make them say their soft sound.
What is: e, i, and y?
This type of syllable MUST have another syllable attached to it to make a word.
What is the c-le syllable type? (consonant - le)
This is the root word in distraction and the meaning of that root.
What is tract? Meaning: to pull
These types of vowels come before ck, tch and dge.
What are short vowels? (sock, catch, bridge)
This is what we call the sounds that are on the green cards (ing, onk, all, am)
What are glued sounds?
F, l, s, and sometimes z do this when they come after a short vowel in a 1 syllable word.
What is double?
This type of syllable always has a short vowel.
What are closed syllables?
(Closed syllable exceptions have long vowels .. ild, old, ost)
This is the suffix we use when we compare two things.
What is er? (ex. taller)
This 3-letter vowel team usually is followed by the letter t.
What is igh? (bright, fight, light, might, right)
This term is the term that means oral reading rate (speed), accuracy, and expression.
What is fluency?
You change the ending of a word ending in y to i EXCEPT when adding what suffix?
What is ing?
We look for and underline these first when we're trying to break apart a multisyllabic word.
What are vowels?
This word contains the root struct but with a prefix added to it, means away from or the opposite of building up. (Think: after a storm)
What is destruction?
This is the only letter that can be a consonant or a vowel.
What is the letter y?
There are six kinds and there can be more than one in multisyllabic words.
What are syllable types.
Time becomes timing when you follow this rule.
What is the drop e rule?