State the Objective
Tell the children that they will play a space game and that they will read and write words with a silent e, such as game, base, dice, home, space, plane, and place.

Literacy Activities
Introduce target words

• Show the children the silent-e target words.
• Read the words with the children and explain that the silent e makes the vowel say its name.

Play a space game

• Tell the children that they will play a space game.
• Read the I Made a Game target text (see below) with the children.
• Give each child two small pieces of paper and have them write home base on one paper and space base on the other.
• Stack the home base papers on the first space of the gameboard (see below) and the space base papers on the last space of the gameboard.
• Have each child write their name under a plane picture (see below) and explain that they will roll the dice and move their space plane to the space base.
• When a child lands on a space with a picture, have the child read the word and write it down (e.g., cake, rose, kite, dice, gate, snake).
• See who gets to the space base first.

Read I Made a Game

• Read the I Made a Game target text (see below) with the children.
• List silent-e target words (e.g., game, base, dice, home, space, plane, place), and have the children read them.
• Help the children write silent-e target words from dictation.

Contrast the number of letters and sounds

• List silent-e target words (e.g., game, dice, home, plane) and remind the children that the silent e makes the vowel say its name.
• Write a silent-e word (e.g., game) and ask:
  • How many letters does it have? (e.g., four: g + a + m + e)
  • How many sounds does it have? (e.g., three: g + ā + m)