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Fold and read cards for a-e words

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Want to help your beginning reader learn how to read a-e words? Try this simple activity!

Learn to read a-e words with this free silent e activity that's quick and easy to prepare!

 

Learn to read a-e words with this free silent e activity that's quick and easy to prepare!

I’ve got some printable a-e games in the works, but I wanted to start with something simpler.

So I came up with these. I call them “fold and read” cards.  When you cut out the strips, you can fold in from the right side to change a short a word to an a-e one.

But first, I had him read through all the short a words.

Learn to read a-e words with this free silent e activity that's quick and easy to prepare!

As I suspected, he stumbled on quite a few.  “Shack” was “shake.”  (Even though he’d get this right if he was reading it in a book.)

Learn to read a-e words with this free silent e activity that's quick and easy to prepare!

“Grad” was “gab,” then “gad,” and finally “grad.”  It’s hard for him to slow down sometimes!

Learn to read a-e words with this free silent e activity that's quick and easy to prepare!

When we’d gotten through the stack of sixteen words, I showed him that the letter “e” can change these words like magic. “See here?  We have the word can.  It has the short a sound. /a/.”

Learn to read a-e words with this free silent e activity that's quick and easy to prepare!

“But look!  We can fold in the end and add that magic ‘e.’  Now the sound of the letter a changes into its name.  What word do we have now?”

Learn to read a-e words with this free silent e activity that's quick and easy to prepare!

Fat to fate.

Learn to read a-e words with this free silent e activity that's quick and easy to prepare!

“This is a special one.  When a word ends with ck, we’re going to take away the c when we add the magic e.“

Learn to read a-e words with this free silent e activity that's quick and easy to prepare!

“What word do you have now?”

As you might recall, my Five is my reluctant learner. He doesn’t like being interrupted from his Legos or other projects to do learning activities with me.  But he was eager to do this one.

When we finished I said, “We’ll have to try this again sometime,” and he actually said, “Yeah, that was fun.” (!!)

Learn to read a-e words with this free silent e activity that's quick and easy to prepare!

When I suggested he read them to Daddy a few hours later, he was happy to do it. And I’m pleased to report that he did much better on those short a words.  He only stumbled a couple of times when adding silent e.

This one was a winner!

We’ll have more a-e activities coming soon.  After that, keep an eye out for i-e, o-e, and u-e printables as well.

To prepare the activity:

  • Print pages 2-9 front to back on regular paper.
  • Cut apart on the solid black lines.
  • Fold and read!

More fold-and-read printables:

  • o-e
  • u-e
  • i-e

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28 Comments

  1. Jeri Ramsey

    September 13, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    Thank you for being so generous with your free materials. I’m helping some neighborhood first graders with phonic skills. I love your silent e folding cards. I would like to make a few cards with the e_e pattern (here, Pete, theme). Do you have a blank template where I can make these?

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    • Kate Dowling

      September 14, 2020 at 7:00 pm

      Hi Jeri!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. For copyright reasons, Anna does not share her templates. Enjoy working with your first graders!

      Reply to this comment
  2. catherine

    July 31, 2020 at 7:31 am

    I could download any of the ‘books’, constantly took me to another page.

    Reply to this comment
    • Kate Dowling

      August 1, 2020 at 6:40 pm

      Hi Catherine!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. The green download box on this page opens directly to the file. You should be able to simply click the box and download the file. If that doesn’t work, please be sure your ad blocker is turned off, and then refresh your page. For some other files, the document comes to your inbox. Please be sure you check your email right after you enter your email address to receive a file. If you still have trouble, send us a link to the page you’re having trouble with so we can check the link. Thanks!

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  3. Agnes

    October 22, 2019 at 12:17 pm

    My 1st grader is struggling with a_e, -ay, and-ai spelling. Any suggestions?

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 27, 2019 at 7:39 pm

      I like to use word sorts. Check out this post: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/spelling-long-a-words-complete-5-day-lesson-plan-printables/

      Reply to this comment
  4. Nilu

    August 6, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    Thanks for the printables. Will be very useful

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      August 8, 2018 at 5:49 pm

      You’re welcome, Nilu!

      Reply to this comment
    • Grace

      June 27, 2020 at 11:06 am

      Thanks it’s well explained and am sure it will yield a positive result.

      Reply to this comment
  5. Jess

    February 17, 2018 at 7:51 am

    Thank you so much for the free resources! I work in a bilingual school in Colombia and this is my first year. I’ve been making a lot of my own materials which takes tons of time, but these are exactly what I need for the next few weeks. You saved me and I really appreciate the work that you put into these resources!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      February 22, 2018 at 6:54 am

      Thank you so much for introducing yourself, Jess! Thank you for the kind words!

      Reply to this comment
  6. Charlotte T Grace

    November 21, 2017 at 12:57 am

    Thank you for all the resources. Such great ideas and presented in fun ways!!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      November 22, 2017 at 7:23 am

      You’re very welcome, Charlotte!

      Reply to this comment
  7. Tracee

    November 18, 2017 at 1:50 pm

    I am like a kid in a candy store when I am on your site! You truly do such an incredible job and offer the best resources. Thank you so kindly.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      November 19, 2017 at 7:01 am

      You’re very welcome, Tracee! Thank you so much for the kind words!

      Reply to this comment
  8. Marlynn

    June 18, 2017 at 10:40 pm

    I just wanted to say thank you for all of the free resources that you make. I use so many of them in my classroom. My district has very few resources for teaching phonics and early reading skills. These are so helpful and save me money. I have told many of my teacher friends about your great resources. I also, appreciate your helpful hints on how you teach these skills. Even though I’ve been teaching 33 years, I’m always looking for something new.
    Thank you!
    Marlynn

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    • Anna G

      July 1, 2017 at 6:58 am

      Thank you for your comment, Marlynn! I am SO happy to hear that my resources are useful for you – and extra happy to hear that they save you some money. I hope you keep finding useful resources here!

      Reply to this comment
  9. Linda Strong

    April 19, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    Thank you for your willingness to share your wonderful resources. The silent e fold and read pages were wonderful for my kindergarten students.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      May 2, 2016 at 4:35 am

      I’m really glad to hear that your students could use the fold and read pages, Linda!

      Reply to this comment
  10. Patricia

    March 22, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    I just printed off the fold over vowels today and I had a question. Do you do just one vowel till they learn it or do you do them all at once. I home school my learning disabled granddaughter and I think this will be very helpful but I want to do it the right way. Any suggestions?

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    • Anna Geiger

      March 28, 2016 at 5:48 pm

      Hi, Patricia! Sorry for the delay in answering your question. There’s no right answer to your question – it just depends on the student. I would start with one vowel and work on until she masters it – but if it’s easy for her, feel free to do others as well. After she has mastered each individual vowel you’ll definitely want to do mixed practice with them.

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  11. Inga

    November 20, 2015 at 11:14 am

    Thank you a lot for your wonderful help!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      November 28, 2015 at 2:33 pm

      You’re welcome, Inga!

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  12. Karen Hickmott

    October 29, 2015 at 9:34 am

    I really appreciate the great ideas and resources. Thank you.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      October 29, 2015 at 5:48 pm

      You’re very welcome, Karen!

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