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With my DD3, I've had the most success with her reading words here and there in books. So lots of practice in context, not lists. She's been able to identify silent e's for a long time, but it just now starting to self-correct a short vowel sound to a long-vowel sound. Then again, she's also just had a big developmental surge in reading/language again in general, so maybe it's just a readiness thing.

 

There's some fun games/books on Starfall that really motivate my DD, but we only look at them once a month or so. http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/play.htm?f

 

Montessori Printshop has a free printable that looks like it might be fun, although we haven't used it yet. http://www.montessoriprintshop.com/uploads/LF-108_Bossy_E_Words.pdf

 

I'll be interested in seeing other responses as well!

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My daughter likes to practice some of the concepts with letter tiles on a whiteboard. Whenever she seems to struggle with something new, we spend a day or two's lesson time building words and then she's good to go again with the next thing.

 

I got the tiles on amazon, and I think I spent 10$, but if you didn't want to spend much, you could cut 3x5 cards in half for each letter.

 

For the silent-e lessons in particular, she has to sort of look over the whole word before she reads it, the exact opposite of how I initially taught her to do it (left to right, letter by letter), so when she was just beginning those lessons I'd say, "Now, this word has a silent-e at the end, see it?" and she'd modify the vowel sound. Now I just wait while she reads aloud, and she corrects herself. HTH

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I made flash cards with some of the spelling rules and then use them for a matching game. You could match the rule to a word that uses that rule. Here is the list of rules for silent "e" that I used.

http://www.allaboutl...-teach-silent-e

 

We use white boards here a lot. I have a little easel that I prop mine up on to write lessons. When we are writing a word for any reason and I recognize the silent "e" rule being used I point it out- particularly if it is not making the vowel say its name.

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We use the Electric Company on youtube.com. For example, silent "E" has the following (most excellent) shorts:

 

 

I find myself singing both songs!

 

Electric Company has clips for a *ton* of the rules. We do a lesson in OPGTR and then search for an associated Electric Company clip. It is a sad day when there is no clip! :-)

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We played a game--I would write a list of words like mat, fat or plan on a whiteboard. Then I gave her the "magic wand" (a dry erase marker) and she would magically and dramatically change 'plan' into 'plane' by adding the e. I would have her read the word, add the e, and read it again, all in a dramatic "magical" voice. She loved it and begged to do it daily, even after she had mastered the concept.

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