The Seven Syllable Types:
1. closed syllables
- have a short vowel sound
- end in a consonant
examples: hit, glum, mag-net, con-test, muf-fin
2. open syllables
- end in a vowel
- the vowel sound is long
examples: ba-by, mu-sic, o-pen, me
3. silent e syllables
- end in a silent "e"
- have two vowels, but not side by side
- the first vowel sound is long
examples: con-fuse, com-plete, ex-plode
4. consonant-le
syllables
- always have 1 consonant followed by and " l " and an "e"
- always just part of a word and never the first syllable
in a word
- have a schwa vowel sound between the consonant and the
"l"
examples: pur-ple, twin-kle, cir-cle
5. R-controlled syllables
- the "r" controls or changes the vowel sound
- have one vowel followed by an "r"
- the vowel sound is neither long or short
examples: per-fume, doc-tor, flirt, lan-tern
6. vowel team
(Digraph) syllables
- have two vowels together
- usually have a long vowel sound, but, sometimes can have
a short sound
- "y" and "w" can count as
vowels
examples: day, tree, meat, oat-meal, snow, tie, head
7. vowel team (Diphthong) syllables
- have two vowels together
- have a special or unusual vowel sound
- often have these sounds:
sounds: /aw/ saw; /ow/ cow; /oi/ oil; /oo/ book;
/oo/ moon
examples: aw-ful, chow-der,poi-son, Tues-day