Syllables
Open syllables
An open syllable ends in a vowel, and that vowel says its long sound: me, go, ti-ger, ba-by. It is the counterpart to the closed syllable, and the pair together explain why tiger and tigger would be read differently.
Teaching open and closed side by side is what makes syllable division useful. On its own, either one is a label; together they predict the vowel sound in a word the reader has never seen.
Patterns and example words
Every word below is from the word list Cody generates from, not a hand-picked sample. The count is how many words in that list carry the pattern.
1 syllable open
241 wordsbe to he we i me my do
2 syllable open
1,329 wordsago data baby fully photo lady duty tiny
2 syllable open and closed
7,629 wordsbeing beings doing going timing uses also into
Curricula that teach this
Cody generates material against the scope and sequence you already teach. This skill appears in Cody Curriculum, Custom Pattern Selection, UFLI Inspired.
Make a decodable story for this skill
Cody generates stories, word lists and worksheets constrained to the patterns a student has already been taught, so practice on open syllables does not smuggle in something they have not met yet.