Meaning of magic e | Babel Free

Definitions

A silent e (in certain English words, such as cake and time) that appears to change the pronunciation of the preceding vowel.

Examples

“Write the following words in a column on a printing tablet or whiteboard: fat, mat, rat, cap, pan, hid, at, and us. Ask your child to wave his magic wand, add an e with his pencil, and see the new words he makes as he adds the magic e.”

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