Put the magic in Magic E with activities your students will love!
Once your students have mastered CVC words, it’s time to introduce yet another phonics rule: Magic E. When the Magic E is added to the end of a CVC word, it changes the sound that the vowel makes- just like magic! There are so many fun ways to teach the CVCe rule.
If your kids are learning about the Magic E, you’ll love this game and bonus worksheet! As kids race to find their magic treasure, they practice reading ordinary CVC words plus their magical pairs – words that have a silent e at the end that makes the vowel say its name. These activities are sure to be a hit!
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Teaching the Magic E
Introducing the Magic E phonics rule? You can make it fun and engaging with a couple of songs that help students understand the concept. “The Magic E Song” is useful for teaching kids how the e makes the short sounds long. The “Silent e Song” provides a great visual of how magic E works, too.
After that, it’s time for the magic e activities! Use a magic E wand to change words like “can” into “cane” and play rounds of bingo to practice reading them.
Magic E Treasure Hunt
To prep our game, print the gameboard on cardstock. Make it extra durable by laminating it to use year after year!Â
It’s a two player game, so all the kids need is a game board, counters (dried beans or coins work well) and a die.
The Magic E game contains CVC words that change into new words when the E is added.
Students can play this game two different ways. To play the first way, students roll the die, move their counter, and use a game record sheet to write the words they land on.
To play the second way, students say the word they land on and state if it has a short or long vowel sound. For instance, when one student lands on the word “rat”, she reads the word and then might say, “That has a short vowel sound because it doesn’t say its name.”.
Magic E Worksheets
After the class plays the game, students have a go at writing the Magic E words using a batch of student-friendly worksheets. They apply the silent E rule by looking at the picture and writing the missing long vowel sound a-e, i-e, o-e or u-e.
It’s no prep reinforcement with just a click of your “print” button!
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