Step 3 — Multisyllabic Closed Syllables
In a closed syllable, the vowel makes this sound.
What is a short sound?
This is the job of the silent e in a vowel-consonant-e syllable.
What is making the vowel before it say its name?
An open syllable ends in this letter.
What is a vowel?
Divide this word into syllables: sunset.
What is: sun set?
This is the sound suffix -es makes in this word: "flashes."
What is /iz/?
Divide the word napkin into syllables.
What are nap, kin?
Change this closed syllable into a vowel-consonant-e syllable: "hop."
What is hope?
This is the vowel sound in an open syllable.
What is a long sound.
Divide this word into syllables: subtract.
What is: sub tract?
This suffix is a welded sound and means something is happening right now.
What is -ing?
Divide the word fantastic into syllables.
What are fan, tas, tic?
The word pancake is made up of these two syllable types.
What are closed (pan) and vowel-consonant-e (cake)?
Identify the open syllable in this word: "robot."
What is ro?
Divide this word into syllables: insignificant.
What is: in sig nif i cant?
This suffix means something has already happened.
What is suffix -ed.
Spell the word that means "a cupcake-like pastry eaten for breakfast."
These are the two keywords for u-consonant-e.
What are rule and mule?
These are the two sounds of y in an open syllable.
What are long i (cry) and long e (baby).
Divide this word into syllables: banana.
What is: ba nan a?
This Latin base means to look, see, or appear.
What is -spect-?
Divide this word into syllables: "disestablish."
What is dis es tab lish?
Spell the word that means: "a group of cold-blooded animals with a backbone that have dry, scaly skin and usually lay eggs with soft or leather-like shells."
What is r-e-p-t-i-l-e?
Spell the two syllable word that means: "super-hot, melted rock that lives deep underground inside the Earth."
What is m-a-g-m-a?
Divide this word into syllables: primitive.
What is: prim i tive?
This Latin base means to ask or seek.
What is -quire-?