This document discusses syllables and how to identify them in words. It notes that a syllable contains a vowel and accompanying consonants. To determine the number of syllables in a word, you count the number of times the mouth shape changes when pronouncing the word. It recommends using "chin bumps" to feel where in a word the mouth opens and closes to identify syllables. Examples are provided of words broken into their individual syllables like "disagree" broken into "dis/a/gree."

1. SYLLABLES

2. Compound Word
◦ A compound word is a word made of two (or more) shorter words joined together.
Greenhouse
Green
House

4. ◦ A syllable is a single, unbroken sound of a spoken (or written word).
◦ Syllables usually contain a vowel and accompanying consonants.
◦ The number of times you hear a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) in a word is equal to
the number of syllables a word has.
◦ A good way to identify syllables is to think about whether you need to
change your mouth shape to say the next bit of the word/ the new
syllable.

5. How to know the syllables in a word?
- “Chin Bumps”

6. Practice
Chin bumps with
these words!

7. ◦Wishing wish/ing
◦Thankful thank/ful
◦Nonsense non/sense
◦Disagree dis/a/gree
◦Seventeen sev/en/teen
◦Handkerchief hand/ker/chief
◦Waterfall wa/ter/fall
◦Flowerpot flow/er/port
◦Hamburger ham/bur/ger

8. Ran This word is ‘monosyllabic’, which means it has only ONE
syllable, and cannot be split any further.
There is a short vowel sound.
Seed This word is also ‘monosyllabic’, which means it has only ONE
syllable, and cannot be split any further.
HOWEVER, there is a long vowel sound.
Goal/keep/er
This word has THREE syllables.
GOAL has a long vowel sound.
KEEP has a long vowel sound.
ER has a short vowel sound.