Do
Sheep See
Sheep When They Feel The Need To Sleep?
Beginning
E-mail:
Carrie Sluder
Rationale:
Children
must know how to decode different correspondences in
order to become increasingly fluent readers.Ê
They will learn the correspondence ee
= /E/
through listening and recognizing the correspondences in speech,
recognizing a
correspondence in a text, and decoding in order to become more fluent
readers.
Materials:
Primary
paper & pencils
Chalkboard
sized primary paper
At
least 3 sheets of chart paper
One
displaying the tongue twister
ÎDo
sheep see sheep when they feel the need to sleep?âÊ
Classroom
set of the book Peteâs Sheep from starfall.com
Procedures:
Explain
Why:
Knowing certain skills or Îtricksâ can
help children read otherwise difficult words.Ê
Teaching children these steps will improve their reading fluency.Ê Write the letters ee
on the chalkboard sized primary paper.Ê
Explain that some sounds can be spelled in different ways and
today ãWe
are going to learn that ee says /E/ and
weâll
practice using this new skill to read new and challenging words.ä
Review:
ãRaise your hand if you remember learning Î/e/ I canât hear
you?âÊ Remember what we called this mouth
movement?Ê Thatâs right a short e.Ê
Tell them that you are going to read them a
list of words and you would like them to raise their hand when they
hear /e/ in
a word.Ê Slowly read them the words: bed,
hip, spent, cap, sad, egg, and fled.Ê
ãSuper job, we heard the /e/ in bed, said, spent, and egg.Ê
ÊExplain How: ãNow
we are going to learn about the long /E/ sound.Ê
A long /E/ says its name. ÊToday
weâre going to learn the ee = /E/
correspondence.Ê When e and e are side by
side they say /E/.Ê It sounds like
someone screaming.äÊ Demonstrate the
action by going EEEEHHH while holding both hands up to your cheeks and
making a
scared face.Ê ãWeâll call this our long
/E/ scream.äÊÊ ãLetâs practice.Ê On
the count of three I want everyone to
practice making our scared screaming face and going EEEEHHH.Ê One·Two·Three·EEEEHHH!!!!!Ê Great,
letâs practice one more time.ä
Model:
ãLetâs look at our chart, on it I have written a tongue
twister.Ê Listen carefully as I read it
to you. ÊDo sheep see sheep when
they feel the need to sleep?Ê Now letâs read
it together.Ê Great!Ê
This time I want everyone to stretch out the /E/ sound that you
hear in
some of the words.Ê Do Êsh-e-e-e-e-pÊ
s-e-e-e-eÊ
otherÊ sh-e-e-e-e-pÊ whenÊ
theyÊ f-e-e-e-e-lÊ theÊ
n-e-e-e-e-dÊ toÊ sl-e-e-e-e-p?ÊÊ
Simple
Practice:
ãCan everyone think of some
words that have double eâs that go /E/?Ê On your own paper I want you to list as many
of these words as you can.Ê When we are
done weâll share our words and Iâll write them on the board.äÊ Give them ample time to create their
lists.Ê When they are finished share and
discuss the words and write them on the board by taking volunteers and
selecting students to help you spell the words correctly.Ê
ãGreat thinking, we have tree, breed, need,
seed, and feet.Ê Someone has treat
written down.Ê Although itâs a really great word
and does
have the long /E/ sound itâs spelled t-r-e-a-t,
and today we are focusing only on words that have the ee
= /E/ correspondence.ä
Whole
Text:
ãSince we already discussed sheep I
thought we could read a story with sheep in it.Ê
Weâre going to read Peteâs Sheep.Ê
Letâs look at the cover, someone tell me the word that has our
EEEEHHH
(make the screaming action.)Ê Thatâs
correct, sheep has two eâs right next to
each other
and they are making the long /E/ sound.Ê Letâs
read our story silently but make sure you pay close attention to all
the eeâs that go /E/.Ê
Now weâre going to read to each other.Ê
Get your reading partner for the week and take turns reading to
each
other.Ê While your partner is reading
follow along in your book to make sure they are hitting all the /E/âs.Ê I also have another challenge.Ê While
your partner is reading listen and
follow along carefully to count the number of times our ee
= /E/ is used in Peteâs Sheep.Ê
Weâll share our answers when we are finished reading (there are
eleven occurrences
of the ee = /E/ correspondence.)Ê
Assessment:
Conclude that the ee
= /E/ correspondence is used eleven different times in the book.Ê Ask them to re-read Peteâs Sheep and
write down on their own paper all the words they find that contain the ee = /E/ correspondence.Ê
Tell them that their goal is to find all eleven words.Ê Tell them that they may have to write down
the same word more than once to get all eleven.Ê
This assessment will demonstrate the studentâs ability to
recognize
words containing the long /E/ correspondence ee
=
/E/.Ê They should not be solely assessed
on the number of words found but on whether or not they found each
different
occurrence of the correspondence ee = /E/
References:
Peteâs Sheep
from starfall.comÊ ÊÊÊ