Suffixes

Syllables

There are different types of syllables

Catnip

• Words are made up of parts called syllables

• How many syllables are in catnip?

• When you see a longer word, read one syllable at a time

Compound words

What does bath mean? what does tub mean?

Multiple Choice

What compound word can you make with bath and tub?

• tubbath

• bath tub

• bathtub

What does bathtub mean?

When we make compound words, we combine the meaning of the parts

Multiple Select

What words parts are in sunset?

• su

• sun

• et

• set

Not all words with more than one part are two words put together

• A compound word has two words put together

• words can also have syllables that come together

• words need to be divided if it has two vowels separated by one more consonants

mascot

How many vowels are in this word?

How many consonants are between the vowels?

Multiple Select

Words need to be divided in parts if:

• the word has two vowels together

• the word has two vowels NOT together

• there is one or more consonants between the vowels

• the are no consonants between the vowels

Multiple Choice

Does HABIT need to be divided?

• yes

• no

hab-it

• There are two vowels the are not together/separated

• How many consonants are between the vowels?

• The first syllable needs to be closed

• What is a closed syllable?

Multiple Choice

Does JACKET need to be divided?

• yes

• no

jack-et

• How many vowels?

• How many consonants between the vowels?

• ck is a digraph. Digraphs always stay together

• The first syllable must be closed

Multiple Choice

Does CHILDREN need to be divided?

• yes

• no

chil-dren

• If there are more than two consonants between vowels, we usually close the first syllable with one consonant

• The letter blend goes with the second syllable

• Let's practice...

Multiple Choice

How do we divide:

ADMIT

• a-dmit

• ad-mit

• adm-it

• we don't divide it

Multiple Choice

How do we divide:

Relish

• rel-ish

• re-lish

• reli-sh

• we don't divide it

Multiple Choice

How do we divide:

SOLID

• so-lid

• soli-d

• sol-id

• we don't divide it

Multiple Choice

How do we divide:

BUCKET

• buck-et

• buc-ket

• bu-cket

• we don't divide it

Multiple Choice

How do we divide:

IMPRESS

• imp-ress

• im-press

• impr-ess

• we don't divide it

Multiple Choice

How do we divide:

HIMSELF

• hi-mself

• him-self

• hims-elf

• we don't divide it

Multiple Choice

How do we divide:

INVENT

• inven-t

• inv-ent

• in-vent

• we don't divide it