Professional Documents
Culture Documents
New Text Document
New Text Document
7 Syllable Types:
vowel team = says one vowel sound (bean, cheek, pie, boat, bow, tray)
r-controlled vowels = vowel followed by r (torn, star, burn, warn, purse, yard)
diphthong = two vowels make new sound (foil, blue, annoy, toy, cloud, audio, owl,
food, pout)
closed = syllable in which single vowel followed by consonant (cat, rab/bit,
nap/kin)
open = syllable ending with single vowel (pa/per, ti/ger, ba/by)
magic e/VCe (vowel-Consonant-e) = long vowel - consonant - short vowel (bake, kite,
cake, take, pine, bone)
consonant -le = unaccented final syllable that contains consonant + -le (bub/ble,
sta/ple, cir/cle)
onset rime = The onset is the part of a single-syllable word before the vowel.
The rime is the part of a word including the vowel and the letters
that follows.
Trigraph Examples:
ore as in bore
ear as in beard
are as in dare
igh as in sigh
air as in fairy
tch as in catch