VCe alphabets consist of long vowels written in a single letter, followed by a single consonant, and a silent e. They are also known as “magic e” patterns.
Here are a few examples of VCe collections found in: wake, whale, while, yoke, yore, rude, and hare.
Every long vowel can be spelled with a VCe pattern, although the spelling “long e” in VCe is unusual.
The vowel-consonant-e groups end in a consonant ending just before the e-cons. This silently produces a vowel before it becomes too long. So in other words, the letter in which e is silent at the end of a word makes a vowel before it has a long sound. Like: cake, mute, home, fine, eve
VCE Pattern Words for Kids
Let’s have a look at some examples of common VCE syllable words.
| ape | snake | eve | fine | robe | cute |
| cake | plane | pete | time | bone | mute |
| make | grade | steve | dine | note | mule |
| ate | late | theme | ride | cone | tube |
| lake | save | these | bike | rope | cube |
| take | state | kite | hope | prune | |
| mane | same | like | pole | flute | |
| made | tape | hide | sole | plume | |
| cane | cape | pine | poke | ||
| crane | mine | nose | |||
| grape | dime | choke | |||
| brace | bite | spoke | |||
| brave | slide | phone | |||
| brake | bride | stove | |||
| game | glide | broke |
There are a variety of multisensory activities you can use to teach and reinforce the vce syllable. Below are a few easy options.
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