Basic Concept of Magic 'E' or Silent 'E' in English Grammar for grade 1-5 with Examples short video

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A simple explanation of the Magic e rule is “An 'e' close behind another vowel (with no more than one letter in between) usually makes the first vowel say its name, and the 'e' is usually silent.” Using a story to teach this rule is often helpful.
Today we’re going to bust another phonics myth. You have probably heard this one…
“Silent E makes the vowel say its name.”
And if you look at the following word pairs, that rule does appear to be true.
tap -- tape
fin -- fine
mad -- made
In each example, Silent E changes the short vowel into a long vowel (in other words, the vowel says its name). Dozens of popular phonics programs teach this, and it is one of the most common reading and spelling “rules” taught to beginning learners.
This would be a good rule if it were the whole truth.
The Truth about Silent E
But that’s where the problem arises: after kids learn this rule, they encounter hundreds of words that don’t fit into this easy pattern. They start to see words all around them, such as horse, love, and puddle, in which Silent E doesn’t make the preceding vowel long…and then they start to doubt what they are being taught.
Some students are naturally intuitive when it comes to language patterns, and they can fill in the gaps and move on. But many students take the “rule” at face value and think that the problem is with them-that they just can’t figure out English.
This situation is frustrating and unnecessary, because…
Read these pair of words out loud: on/one, us/use, hat/hate, tap/tape, at/ate, mat/mate, sit/site, cap/cape, at/ate, quit/quite, win/wine.
Did you notice the pronunciation/the vowel sound in the second word was longer?
When we add an 'e' to the end of a lot of words, especially short vowel sound words, it changes the sound and meaning. It makes the vowel sound long and say its alphabet name:
"a = ay," "e = ee," "i = eye," "o = oh," " u - you"
- hat/hate, pet/Pete, rid/ride, cod/code, us/use.
This silent 'e' is magic! It changes the sound and meaning of words but remains silent.
It also makes the 'g' soft, as in hug/huge, rag/rage, wag/wage, stag/stage.
Just one little silent 'e' changes the sound and meaning of a word! That's why it's so important to be careful about adding 'e' at the end of words.
The magic 'e' silent 'e' is called a marker. That means it doesn't represent a sound but tells us the sounds of the other letters in the word.
It's a marker of a long vowel sound. It makes the nearest vowel to it say its name - say its alphabet name - a e i o u )
But we have exceptions - love/ glove/ above/ have /come/ some/ none / oven/ cover/ glove/ to live have short vowel sounds. When the academics decided to put the silent 'e' at the end of words to indicate a long vowel sound they ignored these old words.
Look at these words: age, alone, date, wine, life, shine, write, volume, those, twice, marmalade... they all have a long vowel sound:
*notice the pattern:
vowel + consonant + silent e = long vowel sound
age, alone, date, wine, life, shine, write, volume, those, twice, marmalade...
It also makes the final "th" more voiced and a long vowel sound:
breath / breathe, cloth/ clothe, bath/ bathe, and also loathe, lathe, writhe, seethe, soothe.

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