Open syllable activities free

Grab a copy of these FREE Open and Closed Syllables Fluency Games, a sample from the Syllable Types Fluency Games in my shop! Three free no prep games are included for both open and closed syllables. Find more FREE Fluency Games. *Click on the teal download button towards the END of this post to download these free fluency ... Read More about Open and Closed Syllables Fluency Game

How to teach open syllables - Learn all about the open syllable and how to teach it to struggling or beginning readers using multisensory explicit methods (Orton-Gillingham).

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 […]

This week my students have been working on reading and identifying open and closed syllables. It’s been a bit tough for a few lil’ ones, so I made these extra text cards (15 open/15 closed): & there’s two formats for the sorting mats (guess which ones my 1st graders used, lol!!): and ... Read More about Open & Closed Syllables

This Open & Closed Syllable House activity is a fun, multi-sensory resource to help teach the first two important syllable types to students.

This worksheet contains words that are open and closed syllables. The answers are provided

Help your first grader learn about open and closed syllables with this fun, hands-on reading activity. Simply print to play and learn!

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

*This post contains affiliate links. If you’ve read my blog for very long, you know I’m a huge fan of making literacy as hands-on as possible. To teach my oldest reader (2nd grade), we mainly use the Words Their Way word sorts and the letter tiles from All About Reading/All About Spelling. But every once ... Read More about Open and Closed Syllable Games

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…