Introduce new concepts PCCs: ĕ, ē, f, g, h, l, ŏ, ō, p, t, sh Words: go, he, got, help, she, shelf
“ham” “bur” “ger” Palming the syllables
fantastic tiger rock
Six Syllable Types Poster
What is a syllable? • Write the word ’syllable’ on the board. A syllable is a word or a part of a word that we say with one push of breath. Everyone say hop. “Hop.” Hop is a syllable. Say hopscotch. “Hopscotch.” Hopscotch has two syllables hop and scotch. Say hippity-hop. “Hippity-hop.” Hippity-hop has four syllables, hip… pi… ty…hop. • Watch me as I palm the syllables in the word hamburger. Place your right hand on the board or the wall, slightly to your left, looking back over your shoulder at the children. Move your hand to the right for each syllable. Ham…bur…ger. Do it with me. Children can use their hands on their desks, their laps, or on the floor if sitting there. Oral syllable counting • Palm these additional words with the children and ask for the number of syllables each time: tiger (2), newspaper (3), rock (1), cucumber (3), television (4), cloud (1), marble (2), bicycle (3), trip (1), fantastic (3). You could also palm and count the syllables together in some children’s names. • Show the children the Syllable Train on the Six Syllable Types Poster. The syllables in a word are a bit like the cars on a train. They are all put together to make a word. Point to each car on the train as you say, “syl-la-ble.” The word syllable has three syllables, right? Have children say each syllable as you point to it. Rail cars to mark syllables • Write the words tiger, fantastic, and rock on the board. To show the syllables in words, let’s draw a rail car for each syllable. Draw the ‘rail cars’ under the syllables in fantastic as shown at the left. In a word like fantastic we draw three rail cars, one under each syllable. And just like on a train, the syllables are connected together to make a whole word. Have children say the syllables in fan-tas-tic as you point to them. • Make the rail cars (without wheels) under tiger and rock as shown. To make it quicker, we’ll leave off the wheels. Read the words together as you point to the syllables. For each word, ask, How many syllables? • The Letterlanders in a syllable like to be in the same car on the train. That way they can help us read the word. • We are going to be learning lots more about syllables this year. We will learn the six types of syllables that help us to read many, many new words, even very long words. Today we are going to learn about two of those syllable types. Introducing the Open Syllable • With the plain letter sides of the PCCs make the words go and he. • If I turn over this o in go, will it be Oscar Orange saying /ŏ/ or Mr. O saying /ō/? “Mr. O.” (Children will probably answer correctly because they know the word go.) Turn the PCC over to reveal Mr. O. Do the same steps with he. • Do you notice that in these short words the letter on the end is a Vowel Man every time? Would you like to know the secret reason why the Vowel Men like to be on the end of short words like these? It is because they like to shout out their names in the Reading Direction without their shouts hurting anyone else’s ears. • Show your open space card for go/got with the t folded back to show the word go. Here we have go with an open space after Mr. O in the rail car.
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Unit 1: Closed and Open Syllables : e, o
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