I don't know how to tackle this. My DD (y1) is talking about 'silent e' when she is reading. She was just reading phonics reading books at the right level (just moving into phase 5) so this wasn't a problem (as there were no words with these graphemes in the books).
Now she wants to read her own books, which is great, but is spotting these spellings and saying 'there's a silent e'.
I don't teach 'silent e' (I'm a teacher) and teach eg 'le' in 'little' or 'ce' in 'peace' as an alternative spelling for the sound 'l' or 's'.
DD thinks her teacher is the fount of all knowledge (as did I! I wonder if this is coming from a parent helper?) so won't accept my explanation.
Any thoughts on how I could be tactful about this at parents' evening next week?