Revealing Secrets: Magic E or Silent E ?

by Janice Varga

Price: 400 points or $4 USD

Subjects: reading,writing,readingSkills,speech,speakingListening,phonology

Grades: 3,4,5,6

Description: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.B Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.E Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences. Many students have heard of "Magic e" or "silent e" but it went in one ear and out the other. My students inspired this creation to deepen the study, see the pattern, repeat the words, then apply them. It is fun to introduce this lesson by imitating mimes who are "stuck in an invisible box' and emphasize that they don't talk.