Looking for a-e worksheets to help your beginning reader or speller? Try these!
Do you have a child or student who can’t seem to get the difference between short a and a-e words? Does he read snake as snack? Or plane as plan? Maybe it’s a guessing game – sometimes he gets it right, and other times he doesn’t.
The key to mastering the silent e (sometimes called “magic e”) words is a lot of hands-on learning. So… please don’t start with these worksheets! I used them as an assessment tool after spending over a week doing a variety of activities with my kindergartner to help him master a-e words.
We started with this free fold and read activity.
We played some follow the path reading games.
We played his favorite, Four in a Row.
After all this hands-on learning, I pulled out a pack of worksheets. My goal with these was to test his ability to differentiate between short a and a-e words and to give him some fine motor and handwriting practice. The goal was not to teach the skill.
We started with this one. He read each word on the right and found the matching picture. Easy peasy!
This one was a little more challenging. He had to find the correct spelling. But he did quite well with this one, too.
For this worksheet he had to choose a word from the word bank to complete each sentence. I showed him how he needed to read all the way through a sentence, even if it had a blank line in the middle, before choosing the word to fit in the blank.
With some help from me, he did great.
This one was surprisingly difficult. He had to sort the pictures by whether they have a short a or long a sound. Because he struggled so much, I added picture clues to the top of each column before including it in your free download.
This was a fun one he could do entirely on his own. Glue the picture next to the word.
You’ve seen five of the ten free worksheets in the pack. Remember to choose just the ones that best meet your child’s or students’ needs. And please do some hands-on learning first. 🙂
Enjoy!
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Monita
Dear Anna,
I’m so grateful for all free resources that you have shared.. May God’s love and peace be with you always. God bless you and your family.
Monita
Petra Martinez
Hi,
I hope you and your family are doing well. I want to thank you for the freebies. I downloaded the silent e activities. I am currently teaching my Kindergarteners via google meet and having these activities at my disposal will make it so fun. Stay safe 🙂
Barbara
Anna,
Thank you so much . These will be a big help to the little boy I tutor.
Gratefully,
Barbara
Anna G
You’re welcome, Barbara!
Suzie Rodland
This post contains wonderful resources for the transition from cvc to vce words. My granddaughter just finished kindergarten, and these will be perfect for building her skills and confidence. I appreciate all the wonderful materials you create and the ideas you share! God bless you and your family.
Suzie–grandma and tutor in Kirkland, WA
Anna G
I’m so glad you like these, Suzie! Thank you for your kind words!
Shana
This website is awesome! Thank you for all the resources. They are very much appreciated!
Shana 🙂
Anna Geiger
You’re very welcome, Shana, and thank you for the kind words!
Cheri Burney
I love your stuff! I teach kindergarten and first grade special education students and they love your games. Your concepts are very straight-forward, the way that I teach, but putting these target skills into a game format makes my students feel like they are playing and not learning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts with those of us who were not given the gift of creativity:-)
Anna Geiger
Thank you so much, Cheri! I’m so happy to hear that your students enjoy my games.
Sharon
Thank you. Enjoy decluttering – it’s a good feeling.
Anna Geiger
Yes – it clears my mind, too! Always a good thing. 🙂