Syllables and Affixes Stage

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Syllables and Affixes Stage
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Features of the syllables and affixes stage

• How consonant and vowel patterns are represented
  in polysyllabic words
• What occurs when syllables join together
• How stress or lack of stress determines the
  clarity of the sounds in syllables
• How simple affixes change the usage, meaning and
  spelling of words

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Morphemes

• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• Base words
• Examine a word
• IF it has a prefix, remove it first
• Suffix, remove it next
• Look at the base
• Reassemble the word
• Word sort

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Common Prefixes

• Un- not
• Re- again
• Dis- opposite
• In- not
• Non- not
• Mis- wrong
• Pre-before
• Uni-one
• Bi-two
• Tri-three

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Common Suffixes

• -y like, tending toward
• -ly like
• -er, -est comparatives
• -ful full of
• -less without
• -ness condition

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Syllables in words

• Compound words
• Word sort
• Compound word book

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Syllables in words

• Base words and inflectional endings
• Word sort-several
• What generalizations can you come up with
  concerning your sort?
• How are the words alikedifferent?

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Syllables in words

• Open/Closed Syllables
• Word sort
• What do you notice about these words?
• What do you see as a pattern?
• Open- syllable ends with a long vowel
• Closed-syllable ends with a short vowel and are
  generally followed by two consonants

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Common Open and Closed Syllables

• VC/CV closed button
• V/CV open lazy
• VC/V closed river
• VC/CCV Closed pilgrim
• V/V Open create

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Accent/Stress

• market
• Which syllable is stressed?
• How do you know?
• Try saying it with the other syllable stressed
• The unaccented syllable is difficult to hear and
  therefore difficult for children to spell the
  vowel.
• Word Sorts
• First syllable, second syllable, third syllable

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Syllables in words

• Where the syllable is divided is considered the
  syllable juncture.