Syllable Sort

A bank of pictures or words across the top and columns underneath. Sorted by claps, the columns are headed by a number of syllables: 1, 2 and 3, or 2, 3 and 4-or-more for Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, where one-syllable words are rare. Sorted by sounds, the columns are headed by spellings you choose -- r and rr, s and ss, ce and ci, ar er ir or ur -- and each word goes under the one it has. With pictures, each one is numbered and the child writes the number into the right column, which keeps the page open to children who cannot yet spell what they can hear; with words, they copy the word itself. Syllables are counted in the book's language, from the picture dictionary and the word banks, never by counting vowels; French counts the syllables a child claps, so pomme is one.

Age

ages 5–9

Answer key

Included, free

Skills

phonicslisteningsortingvocabulary

What you can change

• Sort

  Pictures, Words

• Sort by

  Claps, Letters

• How many to sort

  4–14

• Columns

  Auto, 1 · 2, 1 · 2 · 3, 2 · 3 · 4+, 1 · 2 · 3 · 4+

• Print the word under each picture

• Every page also takes the book's language, page size, theme and pictures.