There's a big difference between hoping and hopping. A lesson on adding vowel suffixes discusses when to double a consonant before adding a suffix such as -ed or -ing. Readers practice breaking down words into syllables and creating new...

Practice makes proficient! Enhance early readers' fluency with a set of phonics speed drills that focus on syllable and spelling patterns. Two drill sheets cover high frequency syllables and consonants with the ending le. 

Throw on a leather jacket and saddle shoes, because it's time to sing about long vowels! Listen while a doo-wop group explains how long vowels are made and shares words that have long vowel sounds.

Early readers discover the lesson learned through the fable, The Blackbird and the Cherry Tree. After reading, they test their comprehension with short answer questions, practice reading and writing sight words, and match present tense...

Jan Brett's Town Mouse Country Mouse serves as a reading tool for little learners in a set of worksheets. After kids read the story, they work on new vocabulary, compare the two mice in a Venn diagram, and analyze word consonant blends.

Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the different...

A very important technique for emerging readers to master is how a silent /e/ at the end of a word often makes the short vowel sound in the word into a long vowel sound. After a teacher-led demonstration of how this technique works,...

What are the words that use the silent e? With this resource, youngsters complete a teacher-led activity for spelling words with silent e sounds. They then complete a worksheet that adds suffixes s, ed, or ing to words that end in silent e.

Students discover the silent "e". In this phonics lesson, students learn a song pertaining to the silent "e" sound and study pronouncing words that have the silent "e".

What happens when I add an 'e' to the word mad? It becomes made! Decoding and writing words with the silent e is the lesson for today. The class discusses what the e can do to a cvc word, then they practice adding e's to various words in...

Practice reading and identifying various vowel blends and spelling patterns. Each slide contains a vowel combo sound, and a word containing that sound. Learners will practice vowel blank e, /oi/, /oa/, and /oi/ sounds.

Large font and colorful images allow your students to study words including the silent "e". There are a total of nine words on separate slides with the consonants and vowels typed in different colors. Tip: While reading the words out...

Young scholars practice saying and spelling long vowel "bossy E" words. In this spelling lesson, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture, say and spell the word. The first person to the end wins.

Students explore language arts by identifying specific word sounds. In this word-formation lesson, students discuss the types of words which end with a vowel, consonant and letter E. Students discuss the different sounds that can be made...

In this silent e instructional activity, students circle pictures whose names have the silent e. A reference web site for additional activities is given.

In this trace and write worksheet, students trace and write words that contain the u sound and a silent e. Students trace and write 16 lines.

Fourth graders complete a worksheet. In this grammar lesson, 4th graders list words that end in a silent e and then work in pairs to identify which words they can add a suffix to. Students complete a worksheet where they add suffixes to...

In this writing and spelling worksheet, students circle pictures of long "u" with silent "e" words that are included in 3 short paragraphs. They complete 3 examples.

In this long A worksheet, students read 8 words that have the long A and silent E spelling pattern. Students color inside the outlines of each word.

In this long vowel O activity, students illustrate six words. Students draw a picture to go with words containing long vowel O with a silent E.

In this phonics instructional activity, students fill in the blanks in 16 words with the letter "e". Students then write 16 sentences using each of the silent "e" words they created.

In this long "o" vowel sound instructional activity, students respond to 22 fill in the blank and short answer questions that require them to identify and use words with the long "o" sound.

In this silent "e" activity, students fill in the letter blanks in 20 words with the letter "e" and then write sentences featuring the 20 words they created.

In this vowels sounds worksheet, learners examine 6 words in a maze. Students make their way through the maze by following the long vowel and short vowels sounds.