The following case study questions consider a situation where a student, Shirley, is being challenged with this week’s spelling words. She has remembered the teacher, Ms. Lee, telling the class that they would be using the ‘silent e’ rule this week, but unsure what that means, she believes that words such as ‘cape’ are pronounced ‘cap’. Her confusion continues as she attends a reading group session where she mispronounces the words with the ‘silent e’.
