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Phonetic Elements Mentor Texts
Short i, ing, ink Mentor Texts
R Controlled Vowels and Diphthongs Mentor Texts
Facts About Silent E ~ “Magic e”
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Silent e usually makes the vowel says its name, not its sound, as in rake, Pete, bike, rode, tube.
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Silent e helps keep some words from looking like plurals, as in please ~ not pleas, and house ~ not hous.
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The letter v does not appear at the end of words, so the silent e gives these words orthographic regularity, as in dove, love, shove, have.
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The silent e indicates when the letter g or c stands for its soft sound, as in cage or race.
In addition to silent e, many vowel spellings are formed by vowel digraphs, also known as vowel pairs or teams. This chart shows the predictability of various vowel digraphs. Spelling Frequency
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