Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Sixteen, Lesson Two: Letter Syllables

  1. dress
  2. lesson
  3. freshness
  4. fitness
  5. fearless
  6. glass
  7. mission
  8. pass
  9. movies
  10. law
  1. crust
  2. plate
  3. recycle
  4. aquatic
  5. dunes
  6. hungry
  7. stove
  8. pipe
  9. wells
  10. springs
Syllables

A syllable is a part of a word that is made up of one vowel sound. The word sound is in bold because sometimes two or more vowels work together to create a single vowel sound. The following words from the spelling list have only one syllable. 


	dress		glass		pass
	
	law		plate		dunes

	stove		pipe		wells

	springs		crust
As you can see, many of these words have more than one vowel. For instance, in the word plate, we see two vowels (the a and the e). The e is silent and it causes the a to be pronounced as a long a.

Here are some other words that have only one syllable: 


	fear		fresh		move

	deer		boom		drain

	mail		male		build
As you can see, many of these words have more than one vowel, BUT they have only one vowel SOUND!

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