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What Students Are Decoding: The Syllable Types
Most words can be broken down based on these 6 syllable types. Once students know how to decode each syllable type, they can decode most words in the English language. Longer words are made by combining syllable types and mixing them with prefixes and suffixes.
Before reading becomes automatic, students are taught to segment and blend, or tap, each word. They say each letter sound aloud slowly to segment, or tap, then connect the letter sounds quickly to blend them together and read the word.
Before students can segment and blend words, they must know their letter sounds automatically.
In a closed syllable, the vowel is "closed in" by the consonant(s) that comes after it, and it makes it's short vowel sound.
In an open syllable, the vowel is left "open" with no consonant coming after it. The vowel makes it's long vowel sound.
In a vowel-consonant-e syllable, the silent e at the end makes the vowel say it's long vowel sound.
In an R-Controlled syllable, the letter R works with the vowel to slightly change the short-vowel sound.
In a vowel team syllables, there are two vowels connected. Usually the vowels give the long vowel sound of the first vowel in the team.
In the consonant -le syllable, the word ends in the 'le' spelling, which makes more of an "ul" sound.
Phonics Intervention Programs
Bookworms
Bookworms
During the Bookworms Differentiated Instruction (DI) Block, students receive quick, repetitive, structured lessons for each syllable type. The continuum for the DI Block lessons starts with letter names and sounds, teaches all the syllable types, and ends with fluency and comprehension.
UFLI
UFLI
The University of Florida Literacy Institute's (UFLI) research and evidence based curriculum helps students have an understanding of the sounds of our language system while learning how to decode the different syllable types. UFLI's curriculum starts with the letter sounds, teaches all the syllable types, and ends with prefiixes and affixes.
Wilson/Fundations
Wilson/Fundations
Wilson is a structured literacy intervention that uses tactile and visual learning strategies to help students fluently decode (read) and encode (spell) words, sentences, and passages.
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