Open pressure syllables, closed pressure syllables and vowel sounds

A syllable is a block in a word, which is the rhythm of the word. Each syllable of each word must have at least one vowel sound. Vowels can be fixed in syllables alone as in u•nit and a•i•mal. It can also be surrounded by consonants such as jets, nap•kin and fan•tas•tic.

Open syllables are syllables ending with vowel sounds that may or may not include consonants. Examples of open syllables are: “go”, “no”, “she”, “he”, solo and “zebra”. The word “solo” has two open syllables ‘So’ and ‘lo’.

Closed syllables are syllables that use spelling mode vowels to end with consonant sounds. Examples of closed syllables are: “pumpkin”, “witch”, “chat”, “bed”, “sun”, and “dog”.

But why are we interested in open syllables and closed syllables? Because depending on the type of syllable, we will decide whether the vowel sound is a short vowel sound or a long vowel sound.

Rules of vowels:

• When the open syllable is emphasized, the vowel sounds are long.
• When the pressure closes the syllable, the vowel sounds are short.

For example, the word “napkin” has two closed syllables “nap” and “kin”. The sound of vowels is in a short form. The word “solo” has two open syllables “so” and “lo”, while the sound of the vowel is in a longer form. The word “hotel” has an open syllable “ho” and another closed syllable “phone”.

Once students understand that syllables form words, you can practice pronunciation by breaking down syllables with unknown words. This is the step to split the word into syllables and get the pronunciation correctly.

• Mark the first vowel.
• Mark the second vowel.
• Mark all constants between the first vowel and the second vowel.
• If the mode is vCCV, it is between consonants. If the first syllable is turned off, use a short vowel sound.
• If this mode is VCV – the mode before the consonant (there are some exceptions to this rule). If the first syllable is on, use the long vowel sound. Tip: If this does not cause your students to recognize a word, try to separate after the consonant (closed syllable).
• If the pattern is vCCCV, look at the pattern for Digraph (SH) or blend (ST). Separate the three consonants, or mix excavations together (e.g., sub/region).

Tip: It is best to start with words that the reader is very familiar with, so they will recognize them when it sounds right.

Hope this is useful, thank you for reading.

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