The first part of second grade is a time for us to review all of the learning we did in first grade about how words work. In the past couple of weeks we have been reviewing short vowel sounds and silent e. We talked about how even though the 'e' at the end of many words is silent, it has an important job to do. The 'e' jumps over the consonant before it and says to the vowel, "Don't forget to say your long name."
We even got to be word detectives as we hunted for silent 'e' words in our books. Each child got three sticky notes to record their words on. We then came back together to look at the words they found and we worked together to sort them into words that followed that rule and words that didn't.
During reading and writing conferences with individual children I remind them of this rule and encourage them to apply it to their reading and writing.
Become word detectives together and see if they can show you some examples in some reading material at home.
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