- Closed Syllables Skill Explainer
Quick Look: Open and Closed Syllables
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DeAngela Huggins: Open or closed syllables?
Students: Open.
DeAngela Huggins: Open. So if it's open, Georgia, what's the sound of our vowel?
Georgia: /ō/ ...
DeAngela Huggins: /ō/ ... Now let's read our syllable together. It is ...
Students: /bō/ ...
DeAngela Huggins: What is it?
Students: /bō/ ...
DeAngela Huggins: Then we have open or closed?
Students: Closed.
DeAngela Huggins: Closed. What's the sound of our vowel?
Students: /ă/ ...
DeAngela Huggins: And let's read it.
/lăs/ ...
Students: Plus how, why is it important to know that if it's open or if it's closed? Why do we need to know that? Why don't we even care? Leona?
Leona: Um, if we know if it's open or closed, then we know if it makes its long sound or its short sound.
DeAngela Huggins: And that helps us to do what?
Leona: Read and write.
DeAngela Huggins: Very good. It helps us to read and write the words. So what was our syllable? Let's go ...
Students: /lăs/ ...
DeAngela Huggins: /lăs/ ... Very good.
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Support Materials
Open-Syllable Flash Cards
This is an open-syllable flash card deck. You can use this in the warm-up portion of your lesson once you have taught open syllables. Only include the syllables with digraphs and blends if you have explicitly taught digraphs and blends to your students.
Closed Syllable Flash Cards
This is a closed-syllable flash card deck. You can use these cards in the warm-up portion of your lesson plan once you have taught closed syllables.
