[upbeat music] [Isabel sighing] - Hello friends.

Welcome to my home.

My name is Isabel, and today we're going to be learning a little bit more about this guy.

It's a letter E Sometimes at the end of words, the letter E can help a vowel say it's name.

It's long sound.

Today we're gonna be learning about how this E can help the A say it's long sound of A.

Are you ready to learn with me?

Great.

Let's get started.

Now we're ready for our phonemic awareness activity, phonemic awareness activities help us to listen for the sounds that we're going to hear in words.

So before we learn a little bit more about the magic E, we have to get our ears ready.

All right.

Are you ready?

Let's get our ears ready.

Really crank them up high.

We've gotta really listen today.

Our game for today is going to require you to stand up.

So go ahead.

Stand up.

Stand up.

Today we're going to be listening for the difference between the short sound of A that says ah and the long sound of A that says ey.

When you hear a word that makes, that has the ah sound in it, the short sound, you're going to shrink your body like that.

And if you hear the long sound of A that says its name ey, you're gonna stretch your body like that.

Are you ready?

I'm going to say the word.

You're gonna repeat the word and then together we're either going to shrink ah, or we're going to stretch ey, the first word is cake.

Ey.

Very good.

That's the long sound.

The next word is pat.

That's right.

I see you shrinking.

The next word is shake.

Very good, ey.

The next word is shack.

There you go.

Last word.

Are you ready?

The word is shade.

That's right, ey.

The long A sound.

Now we're ready to learn a little bit more about the magic E. Come with me.

Okay, friends, now that we've warmed up our ears, today we're going to be learning more about that E. This magic E I was promising you.

But first let's start with a word I think that we can read together.

K, ah, p. Cap.

What's that word?

Cap.

So if I have cap right, this A says, ah, because it's closed in by the consonant.

But, if I add this E, something changes.

This E reminds the A to say it's long sound.

What's the long sound of A again?

Ey.

But the E doesn't make a sound.

Sh.

[whispering] It's silent.

It's just there as a reminder that the A will say it's name.

Are you ready?

Let's try to read this together.

K, ey, p. C, ey, p. What's that word?

Cape!

Like for a superhero?

Let's see.

Let's try something different.

What if I were to take away that E [papers rustling] and make a new word?

Okay.

Mm, ah, t. Mm, ah, t. What's the word?

Mat.

Here comes the magic E. How does my word change?

What does it say now?

Let's see if you are right.

Mm, ey, t. M, ey, t. Mate.

A mate is a friend.

Mate.

Wow.

Good job!

Now that we've learned a little bit more about how the letter E works at the end of short words, that's a syllable type, by the way, the vowel consonant, E syllable type.

We're gonna read the words together.

We have three lines to read together.

And every time you look at a line, I'd like you to think about what you see before we read.

So let's look at the first line.

What do you see?

[gasping] These words are almost the same, and these words are almost the same.

That's going to help us as we read.

Are you ready?

I'm going to whisper read and you'll read out loud.

Fat, fate.

Did you see what happened here?

Sat, sate.

When you eat just enough, you are stated.

Now I want you to take a look at the second line.

I notice that all of these words have three letters in common.

What are the three letters that you see in each of those words?

That's right.

A, K, E. Ey k. So I'm gonna hear that sound in all of these words that I read.

Are you ready?

Lake, take, break, make, cake.

Good job.

Let's look at the third and last line.

What letters do you see in common in all of the words?

That's right.

A, M, E. Ey mm, they're all gonna have that same sound.

Are you ready?

Same, lame, tame, name.

Good job.

And now we're going to wrap it all up together with everything we've learned today to read this sentence.

Let's read it together.

I can make a cake and put it on a plate.

Good job.

Now we're going to practice writing a word that uses the magic E. Are you ready?

Let's go.

Don't forget, you need to have a paper or something to write on, and a pencil or something to write with.

So let's get that before we go.

[upbeat music] [upbeat music continues] Are you ready friends?

Great.

I am going say a word.

You are gonna repeat the word.

We're going tap the word all the sounds we hear, and then we're going to write it.

Are you ready?

The word is, game.

G, ey, mm.

go ahead and write it.

Did you write this?

G, ey, mm.

And what should we add at the end?

That's right.

The silent E that reminds the A to say it's name or it's long sound.

Good job, guys.

You have done so much today.

We have listened for the long and the short sounds.

We've read words, we've written a word.

And today I'd like you to play the long A and the short A game with anyone in your household.

Okay?

See you next time, friends.

Bye.