Greetings!

Hi Heather,

Summer is in full swing, and the kids have traded their notebooks and brown bag lunches for swim trunks and sand pails.

Hope you're enjoying the balmy weather as much as I am... and also thinking about your plans for spelling lessons in September.

Get a taste for what's offered in the All About Spelling program by exploring this issue's main feature - The Many Jobs of Silent "E."

I just returned from a 2-week vacation to England where we toured castles, gardens and historical sites. At Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London, I saw a copy of Shakespeare's will. He signed his own last name three different ways, all on the same document: Shakespere, Shakspere, and Shakspeare.

I'm sure many kids today would appreciate such freedom of spelling!

Sincerely,

Marie Rippel
All-About-Spelling.com

Feature Article

The Many Jobs of Silent "E"

Silent "e" can perform different functions, depending on the word where it is used. Most spelling programs only discuss the first function that I've listed below, and skip the rest.

At All About Spelling, we believe it's important for kids to know the whole story, so they can see the patterns of English spelling. It is our experience that in learning the roles that certain letters such as silent "e" play, students are able to recognize similar occurrences in new words they encounter in their reading adventures.

Here are the 6 jobs that Silent "E" performs:

Job #1: Silent "e" can make the vowel before it long. (note)

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Spelling Download

Free Download: "Go Fly a Kite" Game

Here at All About Spelling, we use hands-on activities such as spelling games and flash cards to help kids understand and master the spelling concepts we teach.

Today's complimentary download works to help kids learn, practice and review Job #1 of silent "e".

This game fits in perfectly with All About Spelling Level 2. In Step 7 of this book, students are taught the Vowel-Consonant-E pattern. They learn words such as date, note, five, name, here, gave, and time.

The "Go Fly A Kite" game is a fun way to reinforce this concept.

The free download link for subscribers to this newsletter will be available for one week. After that, it is available for purchase at www.all-about-spelling.com/order.html.

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