The magic ‘e’ rule, sometimes known as the unspoken ‘e’ or the silent ‘e’where the ‘e’ is at the end of a word and is silent but changes the way that the vowel is spoken or pronounced. These are actually split digraphs. This happens when ‘e’ is the second letter in a split digraph with another vowel sound, such as in the word ‘like’. There are five different split digraphs in the English language: these are a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e and u-e. And to make children clear this concept in an interesting way

Magic e rule - When ‘e’ is at the end of the word, it is usually silent and makes the vowel before it say itsname (long sound).Help build reading skills with this phonics rule.The magic e vowels are as follows: a_e, i_e, o_e and u_e. Some of the words are:can - cane, cap - cape, car - care, cam - came, cop - cope, cub - cube, cut - cute, bit - bite, dim - dime, dot - dote, dud - dude, fat - fate, fad - fade, fin - fine, gag - gage, grad - grade, grip - gripe, hid - hide, hop - hope, hug - huge#p