6 types of syllables

• The major types syllables are 1) closed, 2) open, 3) vowel-consonant-e, 4) vowel digraph, 5consonant- le, and 6) r-controlled (Moats, 2000).

Closed Syllables

• the single vowel has consonant after it, making the vowel sound short (e.g., map, sit, cub, stop, bed)

Open Syllables

• contains a vowel at the end of the syllable, and the vowel usually says its long sound (e.g., go, me, Hi, ho/bo)

Vowel Consonant Silent e (Vce)

• The final e in a vowel-consonant-e (VCE) syllable makes the vowel long or "say its own name" (e.g., made, time, cute, vote, Pete).

Vowel Team/Digraphs (VT)

• A vowel digraph (or vowel team or vowel pair) syllable contains two adjacent vowels (as in rain, green, coil, and pause).

Consonant-le (Cle)

• A consonant-le syllable usually starts with a consonant that is part of that syllable. For example, bugle has a long u because gle stays together, making the first syllable in the word an open syllable, bu. In contrast, tumble contains tum and ble, with tum being a closed syllable. Little requires two ts to keep the i in lit short.

R-Controlled syllables (RC)

• Vowel sounds in r-controlled syllables often lose their identity as long or short and are co-articulated with /r/ (as in star, corn, fern, church, and firm).

whulpclosed

clo

• open

thripe

• VCe

phalp

• closed

quaim

• VT

drope

• VCe

sparm

• RC

snoup

• VT

howm

• VT

phoint

• VT

blonskzurst

• blonsk (closed)• zurst (RC)

smethrape

• sme (open)• thrape (Vce)

zozipe

• zo (open)• zipe (Vce)

parmble

• parm (RC)• ble (Cle)

squirblocle

• squir (RC)• blo (open)• cle (Cle)

tiqueping

• ti (open)• quep (closed)• (-ing) closed

swojeened

• swo (open)• jeened (VT)

gratiest

• gra (open)• ti (y) (open)• -est (closed)

prempling

• prem (closed)• pl(e) (Cle)• -ing (closed)

pretwaipled

• pre- (open)• twai (VT)• pled (Cle)

unmorfter

• un- (closed)• morf (RC)• ter (RC)

dedishier

• de- (open)• dish (closed)• i (y) (open)• -er (RC)

dommunity

• dom (closed)• mun (closed)• i (open)• ty (open)

inexteriant

• in (closed)• ex (k) (closed)• (s)ter (RC)• i (open)

• ant (closed)

uncondributed

• un (closed)• con (closed)• drib (open)• u (open)• ted (closed)

agestive

• a (open)• ges (closed)• tive (closed)

befrudgingly

• be (open)• frudge (closed)• -ing (closed)• -ly (open)

presmoampous

• pre- (open)• smoam (VT)• pous (closed)

subslipenesses

• sub (closed)• slipe (Vce)• -ness (closed• -es (closed)

mishamped

• mis- (closed)• hamped (closed)

reluntion

• re- (open)• lun (closed)• -tion (closed)

overcircumspeetious

• o (open)• ver (RC)• cir (RC)

• cum (closed)• spee (VT)

• tious (closed)

gypsusable

• gyp (closed)• sus (closed)• a (open)• ble (Cle)

disthyportment

• dis (closed)• thy (closed)• port (RC)

• ment (closed)

glamboyic

• glam (closed)• boy (VT)• ic (closed)

comquingment

• com (closed)• quing (closed)• -ment (closed)

chazingly

• chaze (VCe)• -ing (closed)• -ly (open)

sequentious

• se (open)• quen (closed)• -tious (closed)

nonthinitied

• non- (closed)• thin (closed)• i (open)

• ti (y)ed closed

redollided

• re- (open)• dol (closed)• lide (Vce)• -ed (closed)

eggentric

• eg (ĭg) (closed)• gen (jĕn) (closed)• tric (closed)

extoiguish

• ex(k) (closed)• (s)toi (VT)

• guish (closed)

shrowology

• shrow (VT)• o(ä) (open)• lo(ə) (open)• gy(jē) (open)