State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will play hide-and-seek with a cat and some mice and that they will read and write words with a silent e, such as like, nice, mice, hole, chase, and safe.

Literacy Activities
Read A Cat is Not Nice to Mice

• Read the A Cat is Not Nice to Mice target text (see below) with the children.
• Give each child a picture of a mouse (see below).
• When the children read the word cat in the text, have them hide their mouse (e.g., in their pocket, under their chair).
• Have the children read words with a silent e  (e.g., mice, chase, hide, awake, hole, safe, nice, like).

Play hide-and-seek

• Set out three mouse hole pictures (see below) and choose a child to hide two mouse pictures (see below) under one of them. 
• Choose one child to hold the cat picture.
• Have the children write mice on the mouse hole picture they think the mice are hidden under.
• Let the child holding the cat check for the hidden mice.
• Have the children write sentences using silent-e target words (e.g., Mice are safe in the hole, The cat is not nice to mice).

Contrast the number of letters and sounds

• List silent-e target words (e.g., mice, nice, hole, like, safe, game) and explain that the silent e makes the vowel say its name.
• Write a silent-e word (e.g., like) and ask:
  • How many letters does it have? (e.g., four, l + i + k + e)
  • How many sounds does it have? (e.g., three, l + i + k)