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Division Between Vowels   Syllable division, between two vowels
This is the most difficult syllable pattern, since usually when
two vowels are together, they are in the same syllable. More
difficult are those vowel pairs that often *do* go together,
such as "ei" in "reinforce." A special category of "i-a" words
is worth the practice, as so many students make errors such as
"trail" for "trial."  Some of the reasons/patterns for a word
splitting between vowels:    • prefixes that end in vowels such
as re- and pre- and di-    • Roots like the Greek "bio"    •
changing a y to an i and adding a suffix such as -er or -est
(happiest, furious, funnier)    • any open syllable followed by
a syllable that starts with a vowel    • endings like -ia in
Australia, Liberia, wisteria, hysteria    • Hawai'ian words
Choose words which use only syllable patterns or categories
which the student has mastered.  dia