- hen
- men
- pen
- when
- wren
- bed
- red
- fed
- led
- sled
- went
- bent
- lent
- sent
- but
- cut
- nut
- shut
- hum
- drum
- gum
- chum
- pitch
- ditch
- hitch
- witch
- catch
- match
- hatch
- scratch
During the first school year the effect of the final e on the preceding vowel should be taught by means of words already well known to the children, thus:
- cat
- fat
- fate
- mat
- mate
- hat
- hate
- lad
- glad
- glade
- fad
- fade
- mad
- made