RGR Essentials Unit 33 Lesson 4

Syllables Categories

100

Both of the syllables in the word floorboard

R-Controlled Syllables

200

Both of the syllables in the word speedboat

Vowel Team Syllables

300

Both of the syllables in the word lakeside

VCE Syllables

400

The last syllables of the words barnacle, rectangle, and sample

Consonant-le Syllables

Syllable Types

100

Open syllables end with these

vowels

200

Closed syllables end with these

consonants 

300

All of the syllables in the word fantastic

Closed Syllables

400

Both of the syllables in the word trophy

Open Syllables

Suffix

100

Three sounds of suffix -ed

/ed/, /t/, /d/

200

Example of vowel suffixes

-ing, -ed, -er, -able

300

Example of consonant suffixes

-ment, -ly, -ful, -s

400

Latin chunks

tion, sion, ture

Vowels

100

Vowel team that can spell a long vowel or an 'other' vowel phoneme (sound)

ow

200

Vowel teams that spell long vowel sounds

ai, ea, oa, igh, ey

300

The vowels that must follow the letters c and g to make them spell their soft sounds

e, i, y

400

The vowel phoneme (sound) in the last syllable of the word vanilla

schwa

Miscellaneous

100

Spellings of the first phoneme (sound) in ouch

ow, ou

200

Two consonants that make one sound together

diagraph

300

Two consonants next to each other that make their own sounds

blend

400

Spellings of the first phoneme (sound) in ooze

oo, u, u_e, ew