Closed syllable anchor chart

I love teaching two syllable words! It's always exciting when I get to that point in the year where they are ready to take that next step...

Open and closed syllable activities help kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students decode longer words. Today I'm sharing how I teach this essential concept with syllable houses, posters, sorting activities, puzzles, and more!

It’s always so much fun listening and watching our young readers figure out those “longer” words. Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllabe words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words. So, really, what is a syllable? Simply put, a syllable is a unit of pronunciation containing a […]

If you teach struggling or beginning readers, you'll love the explicit, step-by-step techniques to help you teach closed syllables.

Teaching about syllable types empowers readers! Check out these awesome tips and resources to help you get started.

Teaching open syllables to your students can help them decode and write a large number of words. Here is how to teach open syllables.

I used to have the hardest time teaching students the difference between open and closed syllables. Finally I came up with a lesson that clicked for them and for me. First make sure your students know what a syllable is, have a strong foundation for vowels and consonants, and letter names. I start with a word like cat. I write it big on my white board. Then I say look at this word. How many vowels are in this word? one. If there is one vowel then how many syllables is this word? one Now we…

Syllable division rules show us how to break up a multi-syllable word into its syllable parts. There are six main syllable division "rules" to guide us.