Use this engaging story & worksheet to reinforce the 'silent e' rule through decoding, encoding, and comprehension. First, have students underline or highlight all VCe words and read them. Next, they should read the story at least twice to build fluency (decoding). Students then choose words from the story to complete the table (encoding). Finally, have them draw part of the story in the box and write a sentence about their drawing (writing and comprehension). As an extension, ask "Can you think