Silent E: CVCe Isn’t the Whole Story

Post published:May 1, 2024
Post category:Phonics Heart Words/Sight Words Mentor Text Lessons Syllable Awareness Word Building

Silent e is a familiar lesson in first and second grade classrooms all over. I’ve even taught it in kindergarten. We LOVE the magic e, silent e, bossy e, and any other kind of e we can think of…but that…

Syllable Awareness: Step 4 Phonological Awareness Counting Word Parts to Build Word Smarts

Post published:January 30, 2023
Post category:Word Building Phonological Awareness Syllable Awareness

Step 4 in Phonological Awareness deals with word parts and counting syllables. We started with words with sentence segmentation and now we're moving to word parts. This IS NOT a blog post about syllable types, we're just talking the introduction…

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Silent E: CVCe Isn’t the Whole Story

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