At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:

• Define syllables;

• identify syllable counts.

The learners are able to:

• Define syllables;

• identify syllable counts.

Syllabication refers to breaking words up into their component syllables. 

Syllables are a way that we can chop up our words to help us with spelling.  As we chop the words into parts, its new piece is called a syllable.

Examples:

1 syllable:

book dress phone cat

2 syllables:

haircut - hair - cut parrot  -  par-rot

toilet  -  toi-let bracelet - brace-let

3 syllables:

banana - ba-na-na pineapple  -  pine-ap-ple

coconut - co-co-nut computer  -  com-pu-ter

4 syllables:

delivery  -  de-li-ve-ry avocado  - a-vo-ca-do

babysitter - ba-by-sit-ter alligator -al-li-ga-tor