Put the magic in Magic E with activities your students will love!
Once your students have mastered CVC words, it’s time to introduce yet another phonics rule: Magic E. When the Magic E is added to the end of a CVC word, it changes the sound that the vowel makes- just like magic! There are so many fun ways to teach the CVCe rule.
If your kids are learning about the Magic E, you’ll love this game and bonus worksheet! As kids race to find their magic treasure, they practice reading ordinary CVC words plus their magical pairs – words that have a silent e at the end that makes the vowel say its name. These activities are sure to be a hit!
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Teaching the Magic E
Introducing the Magic E phonics rule? You can make it fun and engaging with a couple of songs that help students understand the concept. “The Magic E Song” is useful for teaching kids how the e makes the short sounds long. The “Silent e Song” provides a great visual of how magic E works, too.
After that, it’s time for the magic e activities! Use a magic E wand to change words like “can” into “cane” and play rounds of bingo to practice reading them.
Magic E Treasure Hunt
To prep our game, print the gameboard on cardstock. Make it extra durable by laminating it to use year after year!
It’s a two player game, so all the kids need is a game board, counters (dried beans or coins work well) and a die.
The Magic E game contains CVC words that change into new words when the E is added.
Students can play this game two different ways. To play the first way, students roll the die, move their counter, and use a game record sheet to write the words they land on.
To play the second way, students say the word they land on and state if it has a short or long vowel sound. For instance, when one student lands on the word “rat”, she reads the word and then might say, “That has a short vowel sound because it doesn’t say its name.”.
Magic E Worksheets
After the class plays the game, students have a go at writing the Magic E words using a batch of student-friendly worksheets. They apply the silent E rule by looking at the picture and writing the missing long vowel sound a-e, i-e, o-e or u-e.
It’s no prep reinforcement with just a click of your “print” button!
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wonderful resources. thanks for sharing
Thanks Jamiela 🙂
Very interesting I love this magic e activities it’s a wonderful way of learning with play thanks for sharing 🙂
You are very welcome!
Thank you for the kind feedback ?
Warmly,
Ashley // Happiness Ambassador
Hello I would like to download this game however, the big download link isn’t working . Is this the correct way to access?
Hi Gaby,
The blue “Download Here” button is the correct way to access the download. When you click it, a pop-up should open. You can try checking to make sure your browser isn’t blocking pop-ups from the site or try using a different browser. Let me know if you’re not able to get the game!
Warmly,
Sarah // Playdough to Plato Team
Looking forward to use this material
Tried to download magic e, but after putting in email and name (with the message ‘we hate spam), spam comes up with Active Campaign and another place to put email and name for an advertised product.
When I type in my name and email, it takes me to a “page not found”. Is this product no longer available?
I’m so sorry that you’re having difficulty accessing the Magic E Activities, Krystyna! The problem has been fixed so you can grab it right here:
https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/magic-e-activities/
Just click the big blue “download here” button and they will pop up for you. ?
Hey there, Is this link still active? I tried several times and it brings up 1/1 powerpoints but no pictures. Would you help? Thanks!
Hi Krystina, I cant seem to access this link at all all either and need these activities for my literacy groups next week. Can you please reset the link ?
Kind regards,
Katherine
Hello Malia,
I love your resources! My students love playing the magic e game. I am sharing some of my favourite resources on my blog (calliepeevers.com) and I would love to share the game with your permission. Thank you,
Callie
The Links for the magic e activities and the magic e bingo do not work. Could you please just post the link? Clicking on a photo that says download is not working and I would love to use these free resources!
Hi Madison,
When you click on the blue “Download Here” button, you’ll get a pop-up that prompts you for your name and email address. After providing this information, you’ll be directed to the PDF. If you aren’t seeing these, try checking to see if the browser is blocking pop-ups from the site. You could also try using a different browser like Firefox. Let me know if you’re not able to grab the activities!
Warmly,
Sarah // Playdough to Plato Team