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Kinds of Syllables

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Kinds of Syllables Empty Kinds of Syllables

مُساهمة من طرف Dr.Atef.ph.Saber الجمعة يونيو 13, 2014 10:31 pm

There are six different kinds of syllables in English:
1-Closed Syllables: A closed syllable has one and only one vowel, and it ends in a consonant. Examples include in, ask, truck, sock, stretch, twelfth, and on.
2-Open Syllables: An open syllable has one and only one vowel, and that vowel occurs at the end of the syllable. Examples include no, she, I, a, and spry.
3-Silent-E Syllables: A silent-e syllable ends in an e, has one and only one consonant before that e, and has one and only one vowel before that consonant. Examples include ate, ice, tune, slope, strobe, and these.
4-Vowel Combination Syllables: A vowel combination syllable has a cluster of two or three vowels or a vowel-consonant unit with a sound or sounds particular to that unit. Examples include rain, day, see, veil, pie, piece, noise, toy, cue, and true.
5-Vowel-R Syllables:(r controlled) A vowel-r syllable is one which includes one and only one vowel followed by an r, or one vowel followed by an r which is followed by a silent e, or a vowel combination followed by an r. Examples include car, or, care, ire, air, and deer.
6-Consonant-LE Syllables: In these syllables, a consonant is followed by le. The vowel sound in these syllables is the schwa sound that occurs before the l. Examples include -ble, -cle, -dle, -fle, and -gle
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There are six basic syllable types: closed syllable
1-closed syllable 
2-open syllable 
3-magic e syllable 
4-consonant + le syllable 
5-r controlled syllable . 
6-double vowel syllable
Closed syllable
The closed syllable ends in one or more consonants and has one vowel before it. (e.g. van / an).
The vowel in closed syllables is normally short. This can effect both reading and spelling. For example: because we know that vowels in closed syllables are short, when we see the word cat, we immediately know that the a says short /a/, and therefore we have the word cat, not Kate.

One important sub-category of the closed syllable, which occasionally confuses students, is made-up of words ending in ind (find), olt (colt) or old (cold). These words can be treated as a word family. Tell students that although these words look like closed syllables, the vowels in them usually say their name. There are some exceptions however. For example, the word wind can be pronounced two different ways and mean two different things.

The open syllable ends in a vowel and the vowel says its name. e.g. she, go, mu/sic.

The magic e syllable has the following structure: vowel + consonant + silent e (vCe). Although the e at the end of the syllable is silent, because it is there, the vowel preceding the consonant is pronounced as a long sound. Thus the vowel in the word like is long and says its name.

consonant + le
The consonant + le or regular final syllable, as its name implies, ends in the letters -le preceded by a consonant. The letter 'e' is silent.

This combination of letters (consonant + le) can not be divided, which has implications both for reading and spelling. For example, if a student wants to spell the word apple, he has to be told to listen to the vowel which comes immediately before the consonant +le combination. If the vowel sound is short but there is another consonant before the consonant + -le combination, (can/dle) there is no problem. The word is divided before the consonant + le and what is left, (can) is a closed syllable (short vowel). However, if this vowel is short, and there is no consonant before the consonant + le combination, then the consonant in the consonant +le combination must be doubled. In other words, the student hears [a/pl]. Because of the 'pl' combination at the end of the word, the student should know two things:

a) he has to add the letter 'e' at the end of the consonant combination, and
b) he has to double the consonant in the consonant +le combination.

The 'p' in apple has to be doubled to close the syllable, thus keeping the vowel sound short. If the 'p' were not doubled, the student would have a two syllable word, a/ple and the first syllable would be an open syllable which would says its name.

On the other hand, if the vowel sound before the consonant is long, there is no need to double it. For example, there is no need to double the f in the word rifle, because this word is divided ri/fle, the first syllable is open and says its name.

From a reading point of view, it is much easier. Since students have been taught that the consonant + le can not be divided, they have to divide before the consonant. Ap/ple is a two syllable word. The first syllable ends in a consonant and is therefore a closed syllable and the vowel within it is short. If however, the word was ri/fle, the syllable before the regular final syllable (the ri) ends in a vowel and therefore, the vowel says its name.

r controlled
The r controlled syllable contain a vowel + r combination: ar, er, ir, ur, or. These combinations constitute a separate syllable type because the presence of the r effects the quality of the vowel which precedes it.

a) er, ir, and ur are normally pronounced /er/ as in (bird, turn).
b) ar is normally pronounced /ar/ as in car, and
c) or is pronounced /or/ as in Ford.

Note however that when the letter 'w' preceded an ar word, the 'ar' combination is normally pronounced /or/ as in war/warden. If the 'w' precedes an 'or' word, than the 'or' is normally pronounced /er/ as in word.

Double vowel
The double vowel syllable contains two vowels but only one vowel sound is heard: boat, feed, out.

The double vowel syllable is the most complex of all syllable types because the double vowel combination can represent more than one sound. For example, oy or oi say /oi/.

However, the 'ea' combination can represent three different sounds: the long /e/ sound as in beat, the short /e/ sound as in treasure, and the long /a/ sounds as in the word great.

Double vowels should be introduced as they appear in the material students read. For example, if a beginning student comes across the word boat in one of his/her texts, it's enough to tell them that this is a new syllable type and the 'oa' says /o/. More information will be provided as they come across other double vowel words or syllables.

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