Grade 1 study

What is a vowel team?

A vowel team is two vowels that appear together and produce a single vowel sound, like 'ai' in rain, 'ea' in read, and 'oa' in boat.

What is an r-controlled vowel?

When r follows a vowel, the vowel sound changes.. The letter r is bossy. In car, r changes the a to /ar/.

Is this true? In words like hope and kite, the e at the end is not quiet.

No. In words like hope and kite, the e at the end is quiet. It makes the other vowel say its name, a long sound.

What is a syllable?

Every syllable contains exactly one vowel sound. Short words like 'cat' have one syllable. Longer words like 'butterfly' have three: but-ter-fly.

What is a prefix?

A prefix is attached to the front of a base word.. Un- means not. Unkind means not kind.

Is this true? A suffix is attached to the end of a base word.

Yes. Cover -ing, read jump, then put -ing back: jumping.

Match each prompt to its fact.

What is a vowel team? → A vowel team is two vowels that appear together and produce a single vowel sound, like 'ai' in rain, 'ea' in read, and 'oa' in boat.; What is an r-controlled vowel? → When r follows a vowel, the vowel sound changes.; How does silent e change a word? → In words like hope and kite, the e at the end is quiet.; What is a syllable? → Every syllable contains exactly one vowel sound.

Put these ideas in lesson order.

vowel team → r-controlled vowel → silent e → syllable