The Elementary Spelling Book, being an Improvement on the American Spelling Book · Nos. 19–21 · Part 3: Short words
13. More silent-e words: rule, tame, ripe, hope, bone
Goal: Your child reads and spells silent-e words with every vowel.
You'll need
- The book, open to this table
- A slate, small whiteboard, or paper and pencil
What's in the book
Nos. 19, 20 and 21 continue the silent-e words: rule, tame, ape, ripe, mope, more, cape, wipe, hope; rove, cure, kine, lane, bite, nine, date, bone, pure, pine; tine, vane, case, rate, hive, tune.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Your child reads five words from Nos. 17 and 18 and tells you why the vowel is long.
The pattern
The same rule: a silent e at the end makes the vowel say its name. Watch for u: in "rule" it says oo, in "cure" and "pure" it says yoo.
Read the table aloud
Read the table aloud together, a column at a time. You say a word, your child says it back while pointing to it. Then your child reads a column alone. Some of the words:
rule, tame, ape, ripe, mope
cape, wipe, hope, gaze, tape
rove, cure, kine, lane, bite
nine, date, bone, pure, pine
Spell aloud
Now the old way: your child looks at a word, then spells it aloud and says it.
Sayh, o, p, e, hope.
Go down a column like this. Then cover the column, say a word, and have your child spell it aloud without looking.
Dictation
Say each word, use it in a short sentence of your own, and say it again. Your child writes it. Try these: tame, ripe, hope, cape, bite, nine, bone, tune.
Check together against the book. Any word that came out wrong goes on a card for tomorrow.
Wrap up
Your child sorts the dictation words by their long vowel: a words, i words, o words, u words.