A Closed Syllable has one vowel with a short sound, and one or more consonants at the end. The consonant at the end 'closes the door' on the vowel, so the vowel can't shout its name — it has to use its short sound.
An Open Syllable ends in a long vowel. There is no consonant closing the door, so the vowel is free to shout its name. It always says its name in an Open syllable.
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The E-syllable can be referred to as the VCE syllable and that is what we’ll call it here. Some teachers teach it as the two-vowel rule, saying, ‘When there are two vowels in a word, the first one says its name and the second one is silent. Some call it the Silent E-syllable.
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A vowel team consists of a combination of 2 or more letters that team up together to say one sound. There are many vowel teams that fall into categories of digraphs and diphthongs.
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An R-controlled syllable consists of a word or word part that contains an ‘r’ after a vowel. That ‘r’ changes the vowel sound.
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The ‘LE syllable’ can be found at the end of either a one-syllable or a two-syllable word. LE syllables are also a division rule; there is a trick to reading them.
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