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yellow and orange fishes with corals - Example of unsyllabled words with the small vowel letter e

Everyday I Read!

Level up your child's reading abilities using unsyllabled or unhyphenated words!

This method is for children to have a better understanding of recognizing unhyphenated, single words in big letters.

Here are the example of unsyllabled words with the vowel letter A and vowel letter E in big letters.

Unsyllabled words with the big vowel letter E

Take Note:

I. The first sample word in consonant letter D is DEBATE. It is a Tagalog word, and it is pronounced syllable by syllable.

Take Note:

II. The consonant letter G has two (2) sets of examples. The hard G and the soft G sounds.

The first example for the letter G is a hard G, and the second example is a soft G pronounced as "J".

How to know if the word that starts with GE should be pronounced as a hard G or a soft G?

I did some research and this is the general rule: If the letter G is followed by the letters "E", "I", and "Y", it is a soft G. Otherwise, it is a hard G.

However, this rule doesn't always apply as there are too many exceptions in the English language.

In English, a hard G is pronounced as in get, gey, egg, leg, and beg, while the soft G is pronounced "J" as in gem, gel, germ, gest, and gent.

In Tagalog, the letter G has two sounds. The first sound is similar to the hard G in English, and the second sound is pronounced as "H".

The words that start with the letter G and pronounced as H are called loanwords from Spanish. This is because of the influence of the Spanish language in Tagalog.

Since the spelling has changed to the letter H, I didn't include these Tagalog words in the sample below. Because our main focus is the pronunciation of the hard and soft G.

Most of these words are Tagalog. Whereas there are made-up words with no meaning, and the others are in other languages, not only in English.

This way, the children will be more familiar with reading, especially in English letters not commonly used in the Filipino language. This step is for them not to have difficulty reading in some of the English words.