BYU-Idaho Online Learning
Video Transcript
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To recognize a syllable type, we'll focus on the pattern of the vowels and consonants. The pattern for the vowel team syllable is two vowel letters side by side. It's called a vowel team because the two vowels represent only one sound. Watch what I do to decide if a syllable is a vowel team. Sometimes we'll use syllables that aren't words. Therefore, you may not recognize the syllables. Look at the syllable. Watch what I do. First, I find the vowel letters and touch under them. So here are my vowel letters. There are two vowel letters. The vowel letters, O and I are side by side in the syllable. This is a vowel team syllable. I place my two fingers together under this syllable because it's a vowel team syllable. I place this card under the vowel column. The gesture is there for you to remember, and there's the. Let me show you another syllable. First, I find the vowel or vowel letters and touch under them. There are two vowel letters, but they're not side by side. This can't be a vowel team because the vowel letters are not side by side. Not vowel team, and this card goes under the vowel team column, right?
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