Vowel Teams
Prefixes and Suffixes
Fundations Skills
Syllable Types
r-controlled vowels
100

Vowel teams that make the long a sound.

What are the vowel teams ai and ay?

100

A suffix that is added to the end of a word to show that an action has happened in the past.

What is the suffix -ed?

100

A Fundations rule that tells you to double a certain consonant if it comes after a short vowel at the end of a word with one syllable.

What is the FLOSS Rule?

100

A syllable type that has a short vowel and ends in a consonant.

What is a closed syllable?

100

An r-controlled vowel that sounds like a pirate.

What is ar?

200

Vowel teams that make the long o sound.

What are vowel teams oa, oe, and ow?

200

A prefix that means "to do again"

What is the prefix re-?

200

A word part that is added to the END of a word and changes the word's meaning.

What is a suffix?

200

A syllable type that has a long vowel and ends with a silent e.

What is a vowel-consonant-e syllable?

200

An r-controlled vowel that can be a word on its own.

What is or?

300

A vowel "trio" that makes the long i sound.

What is igh?

300

Two suffixes that are used to compare two or more objects.

What is -er and -est?

300

A type of word that has two smaller words put together to make a new word with a new meaning.

What is a compound word?

300

A syllable type that ends with a consonant, but has a long vowel instead of a short vowel. It does not follow the normal rules for this syllable type.

What is a closed syllable exception?

300

Three 3-controlled vowels that make the same sound.

What is er, ir, and ur?

400
Four vowel teams that make the /oo/ sound.

What are ou, oo, ue, and ew?

400

A prefix that means "not" or "opposite of."

What is the prefix -dis?

400

The name to describe the sounds ild, ind, old, ost, and olt.

What are closed syllable exceptions?

400

A syllable type that contains a vowel followed by the letter r. The letter r change the sound of the vowel.

What is an r-controlled syllable?

400

One of 3 r-controlled vowels that sound the same, but is mostly used at the end of a word.

What is er?

500

Vowel teams that are mostly seen at the end of a word.

What is ay, ey, oy, ow, ew, and aw?

500

A prefix that means "before."

What is pre-?

500
Two symbols used to mark vowels to show if they make a shortvowel sound or a long vowel sound.

What is a breve and macron?

500
A word to describe a syllable type that does NOT follow the typical Fundations rules.

What is an exception? (i.e. closed syllable exception, v-e exception)

500

The letter you put under a line or scoop to identify an r-controlled syllable.

What is the letter r?