Open and Closed Syllables Worksheets, Posters & Slides | VCCV, VCV | Grades 1-3

Teach open and closed syllables with a complete bundle: 4 classroom posters, a 5-day slide lesson and 27 practice pages. Students learn why a vowel is short or long, then use the VC/CV and V/CV patterns to read and spell two-syllable words.

YOU GET BOTH VERSIONS: Color + Printer-Friendly
- Color edition: bright practice pages and posters with watercolor pictures
- Printer-Friendly edition: the same pages and posters in black and white
- Answer key included

WHAT'S INSIDE
- 4 posters (color + printer-friendly): Closed Syllable, Open Syllable, Closed vs. Open and How to Divide a Word
- Lesson slides: 38 slides, 5 days of I do / We do / You do with a warm-up and a quick check, plus teacher notes (PowerPoint that opens in Google Slides, plus a PDF)
- 27 practice pages, one activity per page: sorts, mark the vowel, close it up, divide it (VC/CV and V/CV), build a word, 3 cut-and-build pages, read and match, picture syllables, finish the sentence, 4 fluency lists and 2 short stories with questions
- Challenge pages for VC/V words (lemon, cabin, seven) marked in the page banner
- How-to page with a day-by-day plan

WHY TEACHERS LIKE IT
- One activity per page with big, kid-friendly print
- Most pages start with a gray worked example
- Hands-on cut-and-glue pages
- Fully independent pages: great for centers, small groups, homework and intervention

SKILLS COVERED
- Closed syllables: end in a consonant, short vowel (cat, hop)
- Open syllables: end in a vowel, long vowel (go, me, hi)
- Syllable division: VC/CV (rabbit, napkin) and V/CV (robot, tiger)
- Flexing to VC/V when the long vowel doesn't make a real word