The document discusses vowels and consonants, and how they determine whether a syllable has a short or long vowel sound. It notes that closed syllables, which have one vowel followed by one or more consonants, take the short vowel sound. It then provides a list of real and pseudo words for the reader to determine if they follow the short or long vowel sound based on their spelling patterns.

1. Comparative Adjectives #1
(This is a prerequisite skill)

2. Goal: I will know whether a word
uses the long vowel sound or the
short vowel sound.

3. What are the vowels?

4. The vowels are these letters in the
alphabet:
a e i o u (sometimes y)

5. Vowels make 2 different sounds in
the English language...short and
long. Practice both sounds:
a e i o u

6. The rest of the letters of the
alphabet are called “consonants”.

7. Closed syllable:
A closed syllable has 1 vowel
followed by one or more
consonants.

8. Closed syllable:
Closed syllables make the short
vowel sound.

9. Closed syllables:
cat duck pot cup
dog wet snap black

10. More closed syllables:
clip brick block trick
top tip tap mop

11. The following words may be real or
made-up words (pseudo-words).
Determine if they should be
pronounced with the short vowel
sound or the long vowel sound:

12. latter

13. later

14. thinner

15. thiner

16. lower

17. lowwer

18. reder

19. redder

20. dinner

21. diner

22. finer

23. finner

24. flatter

25. flater

26. hotter

27. hoter

28. cuter

29. cutter

30. wider

31. widder

32. slimmer

33. slimer

34. peter

35. petter

36. fater

37. fatter

38. bigger

39. biger

40. tiger

41. tigger

42. fatter

43. fater

44. sadder

45. sader

46. swetter

47. sweter

48. sweter

49. swimmer

50. swimer

51. coter

52. cotter

53. matter

54. mater

55. caper

56. capper

57. glasser

58. glaser

59. glaser

60. kater

61. katter

62. glugger

63. gluger

64. gamer

65. gammer

66. grammer

67. gramer

68. clutter

69. cluter