Free printable silent e — long o phonics worksheets. Four practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, and rapid naming chart.
Grade: 1stPhase 3: Long Vowels & Silent EPattern: o_e (magic e / silent e making long O)
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1 Decodable Reading Passage
A short, decodable story embedding silent e — long o words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Kate's Jump Rope
Skill: Silent E — Long O • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have
Coloring page included in PDF
Kate woke up at home. She had one big hope for the day. She wanted to jump rope. Kate set up a jump zone on the flat grass. She got her long rope.
But Dot the dog put her nose into the zone. Dot bit the rope and ran. She hid in a big hole. "Drop the rope, Dot," Kate said. "This is not a joke!"
Dot did not drop it. She felt glad in her new role in the game. Kate went home to find a good trade. She got a big bone.
Kate held out the bone. Dot got a whiff of the bone with her wet nose. She rose from the hole and let go of the rope. "Good dog," said Kate. She gave Dot the bone and went back to jump rope.
Cut out the word cards and sort them into the correct columns: Real Words vs Nonsense Words.
Real Words
Nonsense Words
bone
cone
tone
zone
home
dome
hole
mole
pole
role
tobe
boke
mose
fone
gope
roke
dole
nope
lobe
zote
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3 Phrasing Practice Cards
Practice reading these phrases for fluency. Cut out the cards and read them quickly and smoothly.
the bone on cone
a cone in tone
the tone and zone
a zone with home
the home on dome
a dome in hole
the hole and mole
a mole with pole
the pole on role
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4 RAN Chart (Rapid Naming)
Read each word in the grid as quickly as you can. Time yourself and try to beat your best time!
Decodable RAN Chart — Silent E — Long O
vote
nose
pole
home
home
bone
home
bone
vote
nose
vote
bone
pole
pole
nose
bone
Target words: bone, home, pole, nose, vote
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5 Word Search
Find and circle the silent e — long o words hidden in the grid. Words go across, down, and diagonally — a fun way to reinforce silent e — long o word recognition.
Silent E — Long O Word Search
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📖 Decodable Readers for Silent E — Long O
Next step: once your child can sound out these words, have them read a matching decodable mini-book. Each Silent E — Long O reader is a printable story + coloring page using only sounds they've learned.
Understanding the Silent E, specifically with the long O sound (o_e), is a crucial step for first graders as they move beyond basic CVC words. This pattern, often called "Magic E," signifies that the final 'e' makes the vowel 'o' say its name, while the 'e' itself remains silent. Young learners frequently mispronounce words like "bone" as "bon" or "note" as "not," failing to recognize the transformative power of the silent 'e'. They may also struggle to distinguish between minimal pairs such as "hope" and "hop" or "rose" and "ros," where the silent 'e' is the sole differentiator for the long vowel sound. Mastering this concept is vital for accurate decoding and encoding, preventing common reading and spelling errors.
To effectively teach the o_e pattern, utilize these worksheets strategically. Begin with the decodable passage, "Rose Fixes the Cake," guiding students to identify and highlight all the o_e words like "rose," "note," and "joke." Follow up with the word sort, having them categorize words based on the long O sound created by the silent 'e'. The phrasing cards can then be used to build fluency, encouraging students to read phrases containing o_e words smoothly and with expression. Finally, incorporate the Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) chart, challenging students to quickly and accurately name the o_e words, solidifying their recognition and recall of this essential phonics pattern.
