© by Vista Higher Learning, Inc. All rights reserved. | TG P-76 | Connect to Phonics PLUS Teacher Guide word has the spelling e_e, ee, or ea, then that syllable has a long e sound. Demonstrate with familiar words children should already know. Have them decode the words compete, meeting, and leadership. Practice A • Identify long vowel spellings Point to each spelling and have children make the appropriate sound. Model item 1. Make the /ē/ sound and say the word theme. Then play the audio. Ask children to listen and repeat the word. Ask: What word do you hear? (theme) How is long e spelled in theme? (e_e) Point to or circle e_e. Play the audio and have children complete the activity. They should practice saying each word aloud. SCRIPT: 1. theme 2. tree 3. seat 4. teeth 5. plea 6. complete Answers: 1. e_e 2. ee 3. ea 4. ee 5. ea 6. e_e Page P-123 B • Listen for long vowel sounds Point to the paragraph. Say: In this activity, you’ll hear and read complete sentences. You will hear several words with long e. Pay attention to spelling as you read. Circle words that have long e spelled e_e, ee, or ea. Model the example. Play the audio or read the sentence slowly, emphasizing the long vowel sound in Pete. Ask: What is the first word with a long e? (Pete) Circle Pete in the sentence. Ask: What spelling pattern is in Pete? (e_e) Play the audio and have children complete the activity. Answers: Pete, seat, tree, eats, green, peas, Pete, scream, Pete, hear, here C • Spell words with long vowels Explain to children that they should look at the picture, name what it shows, and then use the letters to spell that word. Model the example. Write the letters peels on the board. Then point to the example and say: The example shows someone sleeping. Play the audio or say sleep aloud. Segment the word into individual sounds. Ask: What sounds do you hear in sleep? (/sl/ /ē/ /p/) What is the first sound in sleep? (/sl/) How do you spell that sound? (sl) Cross out the s and l in peels and then write the letters sl on the board. Ask: What is the next sound in sleep? (/ē/) What letters do we have here that can spell that sound? (ee) Continue building the word on the board until you have spelled sleep. Ask: How do you spell sleep? (s, l, e, e, p) How is the long e sound spelled in this word? (ee) Then play the audio and have children complete the activity, naming the pictures, saying each word aloud, and unscrambling the letters to spell each word correctly. Answers: 1. beach 2. teeth 3. feet 4. bean 5. delete D • Sort words by long vowel spelling Draw the chart on the board. Review the spellings of long e. Say: Look at the words in the Words to Use box. They all have long e. Which spelling is in each word? Point to the word these. Say: These has the long e sound spelled e_e. It has a silent e at the end. So we should write the word in the first column, where it says e_e. Model writing these in the first column on the board. Have children sort the remaining words. Answers: e_e: Eve, here, theme, these ee: three, steel, week, seem ea: each, mean, leave, east Differentiated Instruction • Scaffold Spanish speakers may pronounce digraphs (such as ee and ea) in English with two separate vowel sounds. Have children chorally repeat the words with long e spelled ea and ee throughout the lesson. • Amplify Make a list of long vowel spellings e_e, ee, and ea for reference. Ask partners to look for examples of words with these spellings in classroom books. Have them make a list of words that they find and read them together. Show What You Know • Informal assessment Have children listen as you say the following words and tell them to raise a hand (or say the sound) when they hear a word with long e: weekday, teammates, mailbox, agreement, pencil. Then have children name the letters that make the sounds they hear.
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