Weeeee!! This roller coaster is fun

Rationale: This lesson will teach students about the long vowel correspondence ee= /E/. Before students can read, they must be able to recognize spellings and be able to read words with this correspondence, and to work towards this, children will work on spelling, reading, and recognizing words with long E. Students will learn a meaningful representation (Weeeeee going on a rollercoaster), they will then spell and read words containing this spelling in a Letterbox lesson, and read a decodable book that focuses on the correspondence ee=/E/.

 

Materials:

• Letterboxes

• Letter tiles: e,a,t,r,e,s,l,p

• Dry erase board/ dry erase markers

• Decodable text – Lee and the team

• Worksheet for assessment

Procedures:

1. Say: In order to become expert readers, we need to learn to learn the code that helps us pronounce words. We have learned to read words with short e like bet, let. Today we are going to learn about one of the sounds that makes the long e sound. When you hear /E/ you think of someone screaming WEEE on a rollercoaster. Pretend that you are going down a huge hill on a rollercoaster, put your hands up and scream WEEE (hand gesture).

2. Say: Before we can learn to spell words, we need to learn how letters sound. When I make the /E/ sound watch my mouth open side to side, it almost looks like I’m smiling.

There is a long E in feet. Now let’s see if we can find it! Feeeeeeeeeet, did you hear the /E/? If you did give me a thumbs up, if you didn’t give me a thumbs down. (if they don’t hear it try another word). Ask, is /E/ in meet or moose? (have students write it down on their dry erase boards.

1. Say: Now we are going to start spelling words that have the /E/ sound in them. Everybody take out your letterboxes and letter tiles. I am going to show you how to spell tree. When it is fall outside all of the leaves fall off trees.  For this word we will need three letter boxes because there are three sounds in this word. I hear the /E/ sound after the t and r sounds, so I am going to put the two e’s at the end in the same box, because they make the same sound.

2. Say: Now I am going to have you spell some words in our letterboxes. We will start with three boxes spelling eat. What do you think goes in the first box? (respond to child’s answer). Now what do you hear in the middle? ( Wait for student’s answer) ow what about the last box? (observe progress). Good, you guys should have E in the first one A in the second box and T in the third box. Next we will need four boxes spelling the word sleep . What do you think goes in the first box? (Respond to child’s answers). Now what do you hear in the middle? (Wait for the student’s answer). And lastly what letter goes in the last box? (wait for the answer). I’ll walk around and check everyone’s spellings (observe progress). Remember the letters that sound the same will go in the same box. Everyone should have S in one box, L in the other, EE in the next box, and P in the last one.  Give me a thumbs up if you got that one? If any thumbs down, do another word.

3. Now everyone take out your dry erase boards. We are going to play a game. I am going to ask you questions, so write down the word you hear the /E/ in and hold it up once you’re done! Do you hear the /E/ sound in the word screen or praise? (watch what the kids say). Do you hear the /E/ sound in the word deep or dark? (See what they hold up). Depending on how well they are doing, do more words or if they have it you can stop there.

4. Let’s read a book “Lee and the team”. The book is about a boy named Lee who is on a baseball team. The team is late for a game and Lee can’t get his team to hurry. Lee tries to get them to go, but his team wants to sit in the shade. There is a bee coming there way! Will the bee sting them? You have to keep reading to find out. Find a partner and read the book together. After they partner read the book, read it together as a class pointing to the words when you read them.

5. Lastly, we will do a worksheet. Your job is to look in the box of word choices, and figure out which /E/ word fits best to make sense in each sentence. First I want you to try to read all of the words in the box, then choose the word that fits best in each space! (According to the worksheet, you can assess their knowledge of /E/).

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Worksheet:

https://www.themeasuredmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/EeWrdsWksht.pdf 

 

Lesson: Jenna Walzer: “WEE slides are fun” https://jlw0085.wixsite.com/lessonplans/beginning-reading

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