Eager E
Emergent Literacy Design
Rationale:
This lesson will help students learn about the long e sound. The lesson
will
provide visual cues, which will help them remember the e sound.
Materials:
Primary paper, pencils, chart that has eager eazy eats easy ewalabee.
Lee and
the Team
Procedures:
1)
Introduce
lesson by saying sounds are really hard to learn, but we are going to
make them
easier by giving the letter visual cues to help us remember. Today we
will
begin by talking about eager e
2)
Ask
the
students, did you ever hear someone say they were eager to go and play
outside?
Well let’s pretend that we are someone who is eager to do something.
Every time
you feel your mouth move the same way you say eager, we are going to
act like
we are eager. We will do this by waving our hands over our heads very
eagerly.
3)
Lets
try and
find all the /E/ sounds in this sentence. Eager eazy eats easy
ewalabee. Lets
practice saying the tongue twister a few times first so when the time
comes we
can really listen for the /E/ sound. Do you hear all those /E/ sounds?
Lets
drag out the /E/ sound when we hear it.
4)
Lets
practice
writing our E’s again. Model for them how we say the /E/ sound and then
slowly
show them how to write an /E/ Provide descriptions as you are forming
the /E/
that will help them remember how to right the /E/ sound, After we have
all
written down our E’s, we will write them five more times for extra
practice.
5)
Do
you hear
the /E/ sound in leave or stay? birch or tree? easy or hard. Pass out
match
games that have two decks. One deck has pictures of /E/ words. The
match of the
picture will be the word. The children will play the game by matching
the
pictures and the words. There should be enough for each individual
child.
6)
Read
Lee and
the Team to them. Read the book again and every time they hear the /E/
sound,
have the children draw a pictures of a bee and write a message about
the bee.
7)
Make
a copy
of their drawing and give it too them to help them remember the /E/
sound. Have
the students find all the /E/ sounds in their stories. Post their
stories up on
the wall
8) Assessment: To make sure the
student
knows how to right the /E/ sound. Have them come to the desk one at a
time and
show you how they write their /E/.
References:
Lee and The Team by Educational
Insights.
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