[mick]

I am currently working with a small group that is focusing on silent letters. I am having a really hard time finding activities that are fun, but also helpful to teach to this group. We've only met about 6 times, but I'm completely out of lesson plans. Anyone have tips?

[meetingmac]

What type of silent letters? Vowel pairs or consonants or final e??

[daisyflower]

I haven't taught silent letters yet, but I was preparing materials today. I downloaded a silent letter game from www.fcrr.org I found it in the 2/3 center activities section.

[mick]

We're working with silent letters like kn or wr, beginning and ending consonants

[kattlyn]

I just made a pic match for some silent letters (wr, gn, kn, mn, mb), in word--now if someone could walk me through the process, I would gladly post it. Sorry, not computer savvy.

[kattlyn]

I hope this is it:

[Fairy Queen]

Kattlyn, thanks for the great cards!!

I worked with silent letters with my students and read a book called

Silent Letters Loud and Clear (I do not remember the author).

This book is about a class or students who do not see the purpose for silent letters. So the class decides to write a letter to the editor of the local paper and complain about the silent letters. The silent letters get their feelings hurt and jump out of the letter. So the editor writes back and says how upset he is about the letter because it could not be understood.

Anyway the silent letters finally return after the students realize how important they are.

Our class made silent letter booklets. (I stapled a piece of construction paper over a small amount of paper) I took the silent letters from the book to start with and we thought of and found words that had silent letters and put them on the page of our booklets that matched. For example, the first page of our booklet was the letter (E), students found and wrote words on that page with a silent e (make, edge, table,etc.) the next page was a silent gh, etc.

This is an activity they keep in their unfinished work folders and students are still working on it and noticing the silent letters in words a month later.