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Why Syllables Are Important

• Syllables are the building blocks of words
• Long words can be broken into syllables (small speech sounds)
• Knowing how to divide words into syllables can help:
• improve reading skills
• pronounce new, hard words & names
• pronounce vowels
• spell words correctly

• Breaking “environmental” into syllables can help you read & pronounce it:
• en-vi-ron-men-tal
• Listen: how to pronounce environmental
• Syllable Division Rules can help:
• spelling words you know how to say
• the past tense of “to bat” is batted (two t’s)
• Listen (batted): how to pronounce batted
• the past tense of “to bate” is bated (one t)
• Listen (bated): how to pronounce bated
• pronouncing vowel sounds

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