The idea that all phonetically-regular English syllables are examples of one of only six syllable patterns was new to me when I learned it in grad school.
Road to Reading teaches the six syllable types, which helps students accurately identify words. Here are the six syllable types with examples:
- Closed syllables (e.g., mat and crop)
- Open syllables (e.g., go and the first syllable of robot)
- Final "e" syllables (e.g., rake and spoke)
- Vowel team syllables (e.g., paint, teach, and town)
- Vowel + r syllables (e.g. jar, fork, and fern)
- Consonant + le syllables (e.g. puzzle and turtle)
