The e becomes magic when it is placed at the end of a word and makes the u have a long sound. Show them a few examples of this, like cute, rule, mule, and dune. Be sure to include examples of both long u sounds and point this out. “You hear the /yoo/ sound in cute and mule, and you hear the /oo/ sound in rule and dune.”

Magic 'e' words are words that have an 'e' at the end of them to signify that a short vowel sound can be changed into a long vowel sound. The fancy name for a magic 'e' word is a split digraph, which is when vowels that are split between consonants go together to make a sound.