Long "u" With Silent "e" Reading Activity

Get that silent e under control! Engage early readers in a silent e activity to help them understand the changes an e can make to a simple word. With the provided cards, they read and write each word as it appears without 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...

In this long u activity, students circle picture names that have long u. A reference web site for additional activities is given. 

In this matching long U words with pictures worksheet, students cut out 7 long U word cards and 7 picture cards, then place the matching picture beneath each word.

In this long u worksheet, students decode and read the "oo" (long u) words. Students are given twenty words to decode and read.

For this long u word worksheet, students draw lines to match pictures to their long u word names. A reference web site is given for additional activities.

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...

In this long "u" with a silent "e" printing practice worksheet, student trace 8 words, read them, and match them to black line pictures. They print words such as flute, rule, and tune.

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,...

In this long u with silent e writing worksheet, 1st graders look at 5 pictures, say their names, write them or make sentences with the words. They draw 2 pictures of items that are named using the spelling pattern.