8 Silent-e Jobs: Etymology & Digraph <th>

Description

Silent-e (Magic-e) has many jobs at the end of base words. Based on Ms. Jane's animated YouTube series, "8 Jobs of the Silent-e (Magic-e)," The videos that correspond with this template include Silent-e (Magic-e) and Etymology and Silent-e (Magic-e) affects the sound of digraph <th>. Silent-e (Magic-e) endings that sound different than expected (examples: ture, age, ive, ace, ice, ate, ite, ive, & ine), can be traced to other languages through etymology. This template also covers the job of the Silent-e (Magic-e) to make the digraph -th- voiced, and makes a noun into a verb. This template also has visual aids for “Silent-e” or “Magic-e”, and visual aids for the drop, double (1-1-1), and change affixing conventions. As you walk around this template, you'll notice our friend Silent-e (Magic-e) and his friends are there to give helpful instructions if you give them a click on the audio icon on character letters. Activities: grapheme board for building words, grapheme board to practice affixing rules, practice adding e to words that end in th and reading the pronunciation changes, using the suffixing conventions drop, double or change, bingo, word building, & maze activities using Silent-e (Magic-e) endings from etymology: ture, age, ive, ace, ice, ate, ice, ine, and practice adding tion or sion (or suffix -ion) to Silent-e (Magic-e) base words