Word Study Review

Syllabication Rules

100

If a word has the pattern VCCV, where do you split it into syllables?

VC/CV

between the consonants

200

How many vowel sounds are in each syllable in a word?

One

300

Which letters would never be split when breaking a word into syllables?

th, bb, or nd

th

400

What type of letters should you label first splitting a word into syllables?

vowels or consonants

Vowels

500

True or False

The first syllable in a word with the VC/CV pattern is closed.

True

Syllables

100

What type of vowel sound do you hear in a closed syllable?

short

200

What type of vowel sound do you hear in an open syllable?

long

300

Identify the syllable type: 

try

Open

400

Identify the syllable type:

hatch

Closed

500

Identify the syllable type:

skate

vowel consonant e

Morphemes

100

Where do you see a suffix in a word?

Beginning or End

End

200

What part of this word tells us it is more than one?

batches

es

300

What part of this word tells us it already happened?

suggested

ed

400

What is the base word in this word?

sketches

sketch

500

Add a suffix to this word to make another real word:

catch

Multiple correct responses

catches

catching

catchable

Spellings for Sounds

100

long o

o, o-e

200

long e

e, e-e, y

300

long i

i, i-e, y

400

/ch/ sound after a short vowel (most often)

tch

500

the soft g sound

ge, dge 

(gi, gy)

Coding

100

Split into syllables and label syllable types:

rabbit

rab/bit

c     c

200

Split into syllables and label syllable types:

dispose

dis/pose

c    v-e

300

Split into syllables and label syllable types:

backspace

back/space

 c       v-e

400

Split into syllables and label syllable types:

indulge

in/dulge   

c   c

500

Split into syllables and label syllable types:

advance

ad/vance

c    c