Description:

Make silent e practice magical! Magic E Trail gets students reading CVCe words as they race along a pirate trail and complete a challenge on every space they land on.

What's included:

• A full-color game board with 14 magic e words (cake, bike, cube, game, kite, home, cupcake, these, slide, stone, flute, plane, mule, rope)

• 8 challenge cards

• A blank game board, so students can build their own trail with magic e words

• Blank challenge cards for creating your own challenges

How to play: Players roll a die and move along the trail. On each word space, they read the word and draw a challenge card. Roll Again, Move Ahead Two, and Move Back Two spaces add a fun twist. The first player to reach the finish wins!

Skills practiced:

• Reading magic e (CVCe) words: a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e, e_e

• Segmenting sounds (ex. cake: /k/ /ā/ /k/)

• Counting and labeling syllables

• Rhyming

• Using words in oral and written sentences

Perfect for: literacy centers, small groups, intervention, partner practice, early finishers, and family game night.

Grades: 1st, 2nd

Tags: phonics, magic e, silent e, CVCe, phonics games, literacy centers, science of reading, decoding