LESSON PLAN ON LONG E WORDSBy: Erin O’Connor

GOALS OF THE LESSON

The goal of the lesson is that students will be able to segment one-syllable words into

phonemes in order to spell Long e words.

VSC Standards 1.0 General Reading Process

B- phonics 2- decode words in grade-level texts

b- decode words with letter combinations, such as consonant digraphs, blends, and special vowel patterns

INTRODUCING THE LESSON

Review with the students what the different long vowel sounds are Students will say each long vowel sounds out

load Students will state the rules they know about

long vowels As a class we will read Sheep in a Jeep

As we read the story students will identify long e words in the story

After we have read the story students will sort these words into ee and ea words

ONLINE MATERIALS

www.starfall.com Online story “Pete’s Sheep”

Online activity building ee words

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/ Online poem “Meet the Creeps”

Online poem “A Meal by the Sea”

Both poems have two activities to complete after they read the poem

OTHER MATERIALS

A set of index cards with long e words Students will be required to sort them into ee and ea

words A long e worksheet from enchantedlearning.com

Students will be required to complete at least three of these pictures

ASSESSMENT

After these tasks are complete students will write at least 3

sentences with at least 5 different long e words spelled

correctly.

GRADING RUBRIC

PR- The student will write at least three complete sentences with at least 5 long e words spelled correctly

IP- The student will write at least 3 complete sentences with 3 to 4 long e words spelled correctly

EM- The student will write 2 complete sentences with 3 to 4 long e words spelled correctly

ND- The student writes less than two complete sentences or less than 3 long e words spelled correctly