Review: Drop the Silent e and Add ed ing es

I – III PRACTICE the words in rows I, II, and III. To add a suffix to each of these long-vowel words, we first have to drop the silent e at the end of each word before adding the intended suffix (ed, es, or ing).

If your student struggles with the words in this lesson, ask him what the root word is. (The root of the word naming is name, for example.) Tell your student to drop the silent e from the root and then add ing.

Sometimes ed says |əd|, but other times it says |d| or |t|.

Review: ed ing es

IV – VI REVIEW the suffixes spelled ed, ing, es, and s. These basic patterns were introduced in Lessons 56 – 59.

The Next Lesson Introduces a New Long-Vowel Pattern

Words with a long-vowel sound are sometimes identifiable because the syllable in which the vowel appears is open. When a syllable ends with a vowel, it is considered an open syllable. In Lesson 61 we will be reading and spelling words that include open syllables. Usually the open syllable is the accented syllable, but not always. This is the third and final introduction of a pattern for words having at least one long-vowel syllable.

Let’s Review Previously Introduced Long-Vowel Patterns

As we learned in previous lessons, when two vowels are in the same syllable, the first vowel is pronounced with a long-vowel sound, and the second vowel is silent. The letters w and y sometimes act like vowels. This is a good time to review this pattern.

All of the example words below have two vowels occurring in the same syllable:

A a says |ā| as in game and sail
I i says |ī| as in bike and pie
O o says |ō| as in froze and boat
U u says |ū| as in mule and cue
E e says |ē| as in Pete and meal

One More Time . . . Short-Vowel Patterns

Short-vowel syllables contain one vowel and end with at least one consonant. The closing consonant makes the syllable closed. Examples of words having closed syllables are pat, egg, and helpless.