At the medium level, first graders move beyond tracing and start applying the CVCe rule themselves. Nine fill-in-the-blank questions ask children to add a silent e to short words such as can, kit, and rob to create cane, kite, and robe. A matching activity then pairs four short-vowel words (cap, pin, hop, tub) with their long-vowel CVCe partners (cape, pine, hope, tube) to lock in the transformation.