Stevie Lee McGee loves the letter E. In this song he talks about how thelong E sound can make you smile when you say it. (It's a fact, you can't say a long E sound without smiling). Use a hand mirror to compare the mouth's shape while saying long and short E's. Think of words with E sounds and use the mirror to help distinguish long and short E sounds.
   When reading with your child, identify words in the text that contain E sounds. If your child discovers a word with a silent E, discuss how the letter E has another job -- sometimes by staying quiet, E can make another letter change its sound.
  Because letter E does so many things, it appears more often than almost any other alphabet letter (this is why it is worth only one point in Scrabble). Count E's on a page and see if this isn't true!