(upbeat music) - Good morning, learners!

I am Randi House and I'm a kindergarten teacher from right here in Arkansas.

I am so excited that you're joining me for another fun day of learning.

Today we're gonna be learning all about open and closed syllables.

We've learned a lot about CVC, or consonant, vowel, consonant words.

Words like dog, cat, pig, and bug.

Those words start and end with a consonant and have a vowel in the middle.

We call those closed syllable words.

Because they have a vowel in between two consonants.

And the vowel in the middle will make its short vowel sound.

A will say, ah, I will say, ih, E will say eh, O will say aw, and U will say uh.

But what happens if we open that door and make that word into an open syllable word, where the vowel is now the last sound?

And it doesn't have a consonant closing it in?

I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, my brother and I would run in and out of the house constantly all day long and leave that front door open and our mom would shout, "close the door!

You're letting the air out and the bugs in!"

Well today, we're gonna leave that door open and we're gonna see if it changes the vowel sound.

I happened to have a tiny door with me today.

So we're gonna take the word bed, which is a closed syllable word.

Now, if you notice I have my consonants.

They are blue and I have my vowels, they are red.

We did that just so you can see better, which one's a consonant and which one's a vowel.

So I have a consonant, vowel, consonant.

That's a closed word.

Well, what happens if we open that door and take away that final consonant?

Well, if you look now, my vowel is on the outside.

There's no longer a consonant blocking it in.

My door is open.

Now that E can shout its name, just like my mama used to shout when I opened that door, that E can say ee!

It uses its long vowel sound.

So we changed the word bed, to the word Buh-ee, be!

Let's see if we can do it with some other words.

What happens if I take this consonant off the word hit?

Now I have Hu-I.

Hu-I says Hi.

Let's take the consonant off the word got.

Now I have guh-oh, go!

What about the word shed?

This has a digraph in it.

Let's take that final consonant off.

And now we have the word she.

What about the word not?

Let's take off that final T and we have the word no.

Let's take the word wet and take off that final T to where we have the word we.

When you're reading and come across an open vowel word, just like these, remember the vowel will use its long vowel sound and shout its name.

I want you to tell someone at your house all about open and closed vowels, and I'll see you back here again tomorrow for more Rise and Shine.

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