Phonics

Directions: Read each group of sentences. In each group, there are words that follow the silent "e" rule. Click on a word if you think it follows the silent "e" rule.

If you forget what the rule is, click on the Silent "e" Rule.

1. Out behind the big red barn at the edge of the walnut grove is a most magnificent pond shaded by an old oak tree. I'll tell you right now, before it's too late.

2. So for a long time nobody dared to fish in that pool. That is, not until little Georgie P. Johnson decided to break the rule.

3. He's put up five signs to prove it.

4. "I'm gonna lie down with my knees in the air and the pole through my toes and doze like a lazy catfish in summer."

5. All of a sudden with a bob and a jerk, the fishing line woke him.

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