The Six Syllable Types

Closed (cat), open (go), vowel–consonant–e (cake), vowel team (rain), r-controlled (car), consonant–le (-ble): sort syllables by type.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 4

Every syllable has one vowel sound. Detectives know there are six kinds of syllables, and each kind gives a clue about how its vowel sounds.
Closed: one vowel, closed in by a consonant, so it's short: cat, jump. Open: the syllable ends with the vowel, so it says its name: go, me.
Vowel-consonant-e: the silent e makes the vowel say its name: cake, bike. Vowel team: two letters make one vowel sound: rain, boat.
R-controlled: the r changes the vowel: car, bird, fork. Consonant-le: a consonant plus l e at the end of a word: ta-ble, pud-dle.
Long words mix the types. Tiger is ti, an open syllable, and ger, an r-controlled syllable.
Your turn! Sort these words by syllable type.

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

3.F.P.4.b — Decode and encode single-syllable and multisyllabic words of all syllable types.