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CLOVER and Syllable Division
Using the Six Syllable Types to Help Students Unlock Words
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Reading Research Blocks Series
Phonological Awareness Decoding Syllable division Onset & Rime Phonemic awareness Comprehension Phonics Fluency Syntax Multisyllabic Words Spelling Morphology Encoding Vocabulary Irregular words Decoding Word derivation Rhyme
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Did you know? 50% of English is rule governed and completely regular 37% of words have only one irregularity 13% irregular 87%
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What’s this session about?
This session will address helping those kids who have splinter reading skills, but have few skills to unlock unknown words. They guess based on the first letter or two. They use pictures (not many pictures at this level) and what they know, or think they know, of the content.
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Instruction must be cumulative, sequential, and systematic, so that students overcome the bad habit of relying on context and guessing to decode unknown words. Louisa Moats
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In this session, you will learn
The 6 syllable types How to identify syllable types in a word How to divide words into syllables and identify what the vowel says based on the syllable pattern Gain confidence in your ability to present vocabulary so that students become more able and empowered in unlocking unknown words.
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Let’s see what we know first
Pretest Let’s see what we know first
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Hang in there… Here we go!
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CLOVER Closed Syllable drill stamp whiz lip plod
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Yes? No? 1 2 3 4
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1 Closed? Yes or No bat coat try stamp grim grime no pick shut ask chip dream
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Closed? Yes or No bat coat try stamp grim grime no pick shut ask chip dream
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n i p c a t
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f a n t a s t i c 3 vowels 3 syllables fan tas tic
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hundred n dr hun dred
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shadplit shad plit Blend to the end
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swashblam swash blam sh = digraph bl = blend
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2 Divide these words into syllables Count the consonants between the vowels and group them together – Remember blend to the end when possible British complex transmit clupnet chinfrob handshake vambith contrast brethren 1 consonant 2 consonants 3 4 tim id con test mim ic van quish liv id
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Brit ish clup net vam bith com plex trans mit chin frob con trast breth ren handshake
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CLOVER Open Syllable she try tra no dru
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Open? Yes or No 3 hi I she fee flu will Kate pry belt
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Open? Yes or No hi I she fee flu will Kate pry belt
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silo si lo o o zero ze ro O O
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Let's combine the two syllable types
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silent protest erupt 4 tulip open humid even frequent menu
o c o c o c tulip open humid even frequent menu result began defrost
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How’d You Do? tu lip o pen hu mid o c o c o c e ven fre quent men u
o c o c c o re sult be gan de frost o c o c o c
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Vowel – Consonant e Syllable
CLOVER Vowel – Consonant e Syllable stove bride flute cake tribe
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Silent e Syllable e e
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5 Silent e? Yes or No quite chive slip squish eke glare dim dime camp
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Silent e? Yes or No quite chive slip squish eke glare dim dime camp
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Let’s Do These Together
apron think pr between the 2 vowels blend to the end if possible a pron ә
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distribute Think: 4 vowels, but the e on the end is silent
So I will have 3 syllables Divide between the 2 “i’s str (3 letter blend) I’ll try putting s with the 1st syllable and blend to the end with tr – dis tr Now I have to divide between the i and the u. I’ll flex the b – dis tri bute dis trib ute Distribute is a word I know.
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Closed – Open – Silent e (v-e)
6 Closed – Open – Silent e (v-e) athlete inflate romantic economize stipulate replenish microscope amnesty rejuvenate navy
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Closed – Open – Silent e ath lete in flate c v-e c v-e
ro man tic e con o mize o c c o c o v-e stip u late re plen ish c o v-e o c c
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Closed – Open – Silent e mi cro scope am nes ty o o v-e c c o
re ju ven ate na vy o o c v-e o o
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CLOVER Consonant le cycle kettle giggle bubble riffle
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-le Always the last syllable “e”s only job is to make it a vowel
ble fle tle ple gle zle cle dle
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Watch the spelling ta ble sim ple drib ble cra dle ket tle
What do you notice?
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table ta ble o -le kettle ket tle c -le drizzle driz zle c -le rifle ri fle o -le simple sim ple c -le cycle cy cle o -le riddle rid dle c -le giggle gig gle c -le
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Your Turn 7 grumble huddle maple able tackle crumble
bugle dangle tumble
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How did you do? grum ble hud dle ma ple c -le c -le o -le
a ble tac kle crum ble o -le c -le c -le bu gle dan gle tum ble o -le c -le c -le
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CLOVER R Controlled Syllable third thorn spurn star herd
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ar or er ir ur smart for bird turn curve skirt short farm
stork fern third storm
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particle ә par ti cle r o -le Ә = schwa
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scarlet circus tribute
survive thirsty organize interrupt paragraph internalize candle tremble final Afganistan photosynthesis 8 Putting it together c l o e r
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scar let cir cus trib ute
r c r c c e sur vive thir sty or gan ize r e r o r c e ә ә in ter rupt par a graph in ter na lize c r c r o c c r o e
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can dle trem ble fi nal Af gan i stan c c o c pho to syn the sis ә
c -le c le o c Af gan i stan c c o c pho to syn the sis o o c o c
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CLOVER Vowel Team Syllable sew steak roast slow stain
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First Vowel Says Its Name
ai ay ee ea (eat, bread, steak) ey igh oa ow oe
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eigh (eight) ei (vein) ie (piece) ue ui oo ew eu (Sue, suit, moo, blew, Europe) oi oy (boil, toy) ou ow (trout, brow, brown, trowel, power) au aw (August, flaw, brawl)
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flower flow er VT r
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Try these 9 freedom lighter cruiser crucify May triple
eighteen frontier majority defeat remember fraternity
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Try these free dom light er crui ser VT c r VT r cru ci fy May tri ple
ә free dom light er crui ser VT c r VT r ә ә cru ci fy May tri ple o o o VT o -le ә ә eigh teen fron tier ma jor i ty VT c VT o r o o ә ә de feat re mem ber fra ter ni ty o VT o c r o r o o Try these
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Syl la ble Di vi sion
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Takes the guess work out of syllable division
Syl la ble Di vi sion Takes the guess work out of syllable division
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Syllable Division Rules
Step One: Find and underline all the single vowel sounds. umbrella Step Two: Count the number of consonants between the vowels umbrella Step Three: Divide the syllables according to the number of consonants between the vowels um brel la c c o
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Count the Syllables lady See Syllable(s)
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rain See Syllable(s) ____ ________
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Try These 10 grape sleeve pillow thief crocodile umbrella
cry porcupine
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How Did You Do? grape 1 sleeve 1 pillow 2 thief 1
Crocodile umbrella 3 cry porcupine 3
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Dividing Words Into Syllables
Rule Share Fair When there are 2 consonants between 2 vowels, each syllable usually gets a vowel muffin balloon signal Which word(s) have a schwa sound in them?
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Dividing Words Into Syllables
Rule Share Fair When there are 2 consonants between 2 vowels, each syllable usually gets a vowel muffin muf fin balloon bal loon signal sig nal Which word(s) have a schwa sound in them? e e
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Rules for dividing the syllables between the consonants
Two or 4 consonants between vowels Usually divide the consonants evenly ad mit c c swing shift c c rab bit c c
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Rules for dividing the syllables between the consonants
Four consonants between vowels: in general, divide them evenly may experiment with other ways diph thong (keep digraphs together) sub scribe (keep 3 letter blends together) seam stress marsh mal low
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Dividing Words Into Syllables with One Consonant Between Vowels
Rule Flexing When there is one consonants between 2 vowels, the vowel can go either way. Flex the vowel – try it with both syllables to find the real word
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bacon bacon 11 bac on ba con polish Brazil bacon crazy camel
Mark the syllable types. Which word can be read 2 ways? Which syllables have a schwa sound? (Hint: there are 3)
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How Did You Do? Po lish or pol ish Bra zil ba con cra zy cam el e e
o c c c Bra zil o c ba con o c cra zy o o cam el c c e e e
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Rules for dividing the syllables between the consonants
One consonant between vowels: Usually divide before the consonant first vowel will be long if it sounds like a real word you know – GOOD tu na o c i ris o c hu man o c
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Rules for dividing the syllables between the consonants (continued)
If dividing after the vowel doesn’t make a word you know. . . try dividing after the consonant cab in c c hab it c c trav el
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Rules for dividing the syllables between the consonants
Three consonant between vowels: Generally put the first consonant with the first vowel, and the other two with the second vowel Try to keep blends together BLEND TO THE END sim ply mis chief um brella mon ster al phabet con tract ex treme
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12 purchase anthem engrave electric orphanage chemistry comprehend
When there are 3 consonants between 2 vowels, divide the syllables and keep digraphs and blends together if possible purchase anthem engrave electric orphanage chemistry comprehend 12
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How Did You Do? pur chase r ch an them n th en grave n gr
e lec tric c tr or phan age r ph chem is try s tr com pre hend m pr
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With a partner pronounce the verb form of each of these words
With a partner pronounce the verb form of each of these words. What do you notice? approximate articulate associate deliberate duplicate laminate graduate intimate moderate predicate
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Verbs ending in the letters "ate" pronounce the letter "a" of the last syllable with the "long a" sound (the name of the letter "a", the sound of the words steak and make).
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Practice 13 Try opportunity These suspect encouraged suspense polish
melodramatic crocodile suspect suspense suspension accept acceptable
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How did you do? op por tu ni ty c r o o o en cour ag c d c s (suffix)
Pol ish or Po lish c c o c mel o dra ma tic c o o o c croc o dile c o v-e How did you do? ed
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Elementary Middle School High School
For which child. . . ? Discuss how you would use teaching syllable division to your level students. Elementary Middle School High School
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How Would You Divide These?
vy got sky o c o fout blin d c sat is trix c c c squil am c c rish gliz im c c c vygotsky foutblin satistrix squilam rishglizim Did you do it differently?
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Suffixes Depends on syllable type of word & number of syllables in the word Depends on the ending being added Suffix begins with a vowel Suffix begins with an “i” Suffix begins with a consonant
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Sample Vowel Suffixes -ed -en -able -er -ent -ar -ation -ous -or -itis
-ive -ing -ist -ical -ible -ibility
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Consonant suffixes -ness hap pi ness -ly tra gic ly -ful cup ful
-tion tran si tion -sion ses sion -cian mu si cian -ly tra gic ly -ment in cre ment -ship pen man ship -less clue less
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Vowel suffixes beginning with “i”
-itis -ive -ing -ist -ical -ible -ibility
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The Schwa Sound Sound is often determined by placement of the accent within a word. Any vowel can become a schwa sound in an unaccented syllable Incredible compliment beckon Alaska
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Determining Accent Easier once students recognize the root in polysyllabic words Accent is most likely to be on the word root
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Patterns of Accent Primary Accent: Secondary or tertiary Accent:
Stress (syllable pronounced the loudest) is on one syllable Secondary or tertiary Accent: Weaker stress on another syllable
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Accent Generalizations
Accented syllables are pronounced according to their syllable type. A las ka c Unaccented syllables are pronounced as a schwa sound. A las ka
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Accent Generalizations
Accent the first syllable in two or three syllable words and pronounce according to syllable type If word does not sound like a word you know, move the accent Accent the second syllable vowel and pronounce according to syllable type
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Accent – Two syllable words continued . . .
When a word can be either a noun or a verb . . . The prefix is accented if it is a noun . . . com ́ bine The root is accented if it is a verb . . . com biné
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Accent in Three Syllable Words
The first syllable is usually accented while the vowel in the second syllable is a schwa. miń is ter When the word consists of a prefix, root and a suffix, the accent is usually on the second syllable. in dent ́ ed
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Accent in Four Syllable Words
The accent is generally on the second syllable in a four syllable word. in veś ti gate mag net́ ic ly
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Accents controlled by suffixes
Suffixes beginning with “i” -ic Accent on syllable before this suffix -ity -ion ( pronounced as /e un/ or /yun/ ) -tion, -sion, -cian Accent is on syllable before these suffixes
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Now let’s see what you learned
Great Job!! Now let’s see what you learned -le closed silent e open vi la r controlled vowel team di syl sion ble
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Don’t forget to evaluate workshop for credit
Thanks for coming Don’t forget to evaluate workshop for credit
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