Help Find the Missing Syllables in a Word!

As teachers, we know how much our students love digital learning opportunities. We also know how much they enjoy solving a mystery. This syllables resource allows them to do both of these things simultaneously!

This Science of Reading-based interactive resource has been designed to teach your students about the phonological skill of syllabification. Each of the 19 slides focuses on a particular syllable type. In case you need a refresher, they are closed, open, magic (or silent) e, vowel team, r-controlled, and consonant +le. Three words with a missing syllable are displayed on each slide, along with three missing syllable choices. Students must drag and drop the correct missing syllable into the correct word.

Multiple Applications for This Syllable Division Resource

This versatile phonics resource can be used in your classroom in various ways.

Independent Activity

Let more-confident students work through the resource independently by assigning the activity in Google classroom. Ensure that the students complete the activity in Edit mode, not in Presentation mode.

Targeted group activity

Work on the resource as a targeted support activity with a group of less-confident learners. While working on each slide, reinforce the phonemic characteristics of each syllable type to the students, e.g., a vowel team syllable consists of two or more letters working together to make a vowel sound.

Whole-class lesson 

Project the presentation onto your interactive whiteboard and work through the slides as a whole-class lesson or review. You might like to provide your students with dry-erase boards so they can write down the three correct words before discussing the correct answers as a class.

No Preparation… Just Download and Go!

Click the Download button to access the interactive Google Slides document.

This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a teacher in Florida and a Teach Starter collaborator.