Syllables

A syllable is the sound of a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) when you

pronounce a word. BAT has one syllable and RACCOON has
two. Longer words may have three or more syllables.

Sometimes it helps to clap for each syllable until you can

recognize where syllables break.

This chart shows some common one, two and three syllable
words:

1 syllable 2 syllables 3 syllables

cat again kayaking

light sailboat butterfly

jump jumped potato

nose eleven afternoon

arm thirteen anyway

foot horseshoe cantalope

toe rainbow telephone

neck baseball triangle

shoe football grandmother

ice snowshoe grandfather

well pencil December

fire water important