Teaching · Reading Intervention

A syllable reference built from the words you actually teach.

Type a word, divide it with hyphens and file it under a type. The library reads every syllable, names the division pattern, counts your words by type and points out the ones filed under a type they do not show.

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The library

One library per group or unit; add words as you teach them. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Reading Intervention$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Every word read syllable by syllable with its division pattern, the library counted by type, and a list of words to check.
Who it is for
Reading interventionists and specialists, special education teachers, and classroom teachers using structured literacy.
Format
Browser form. Several saved libraries; printed with the readout or as a blank form; CSV of the words; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Reading Intervention toolkit ($49) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Reading Intervention space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
six kinds of syllable, one shelf
Drawn for this page. A library you build from the words you teach becomes the reference you reach for during lessons.

How to use it

  1. Start a library with a short code, such as a group or unit.
  2. Mark what the words are for and the types you are teaching now.
  3. Add each word, divide it with hyphens and choose the type you file it under.
  4. Read the summary: fix any word to check and fill thin types.
  5. Print the library as a reference card for lessons.

Start a library

The reference

The six types

  • Closed: one vowel, closed in by a consonant; the vowel is usually short (cat, rab-bit).
  • Open: ends in one vowel; the vowel is usually long (go, ro-bot).
  • Vowel-consonant-e: one vowel, one consonant, then a silent e that makes the vowel long (cake, sun-shine).
  • Vowel team: two or more letters together spell one vowel sound (rain, boat, snow, light).
  • Vowel-r: a vowel followed by r, which changes its sound (car, her, bird, fork, burn).
  • Consonant-le: a final syllable of a consonant and le; the e is silent (ta-ble, can-dle).

How the check reads

The pattern check applies the definitions under The six types, letter by letter. Programs file some syllables differently, such as -are and -ire, which it accepts as either vowel-consonant-e or vowel-r. Your program’s convention governs.

What it is not

Not a word generator or a test. It organizes and checks the words you choose; the schwa and other exceptions are for your notes.

Sources

  1. Moats LC. Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers. Brookes, 3rd ed., 2020 (syllable types and division).
  2. International Dyslexia Association. Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading, 2018.
  3. Kearns DM. Does English have useful syllable division patterns? Reading Research Quarterly, 2020 (why patterns are a starting point, not a rule).
  4. The pattern rules used by the check are listed under How the check reads; division patterns count ck, sh, ch, th, wh, ph, ng and tch as one consonant.

The example words are common English words chosen for illustration. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.