Silent E Phonics Worksheet for Beginning Readers

Use this free homeschool phonics worksheet to help your students learn about the silent E.  

In this Silent Letter E worksheet, the students will read the words and draw a picture to represent each word.  This will help them distinguish between words that end with a silent e and words that do not such as can and cane.

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Directions for Using the Silent E Phonics Worksheet

Have your beginning reading student read each word in the boxes. Then, have them draw a picture of the word in the box. Let them compare how the addition of the silent letter E changes the meaning to a new word because they’ve switched from a short vowel sound to a long vowel sound.

I like to tell my beginning readers that the silent E make the first vowel say its name. This makes it easier for them to remember what the silent E does.

This Silent E words worksheet features these short -e words: Can, Cap, Man, and Pin. With the addition of the silent E, they become Long vowel words: Cane, Cape, Mane, and Pine.

You might also like this Rhyming Long E phonics worksheets

Or these other phonics worksheets: Free Long OW Words worksheet.

This phonics worksheet is a part of our multi-subject A Tree is Nice Literature Unit Study for Preschool, Kindergarten and 1st to 2nd graders which teaches your early learners all about trees and how they change throughout the seasons.