Long e with Sheep in a Jeep

Learning Resource Type

Lesson Plan

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

1, 2

Overview

This lesson is a small group phonics lesson. Using Sheep in a Jeep students will learn that ee says /e/. Students will read and write long e words and read the story Sheep in a Jeep.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.R2

Use knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and word analysis skills to decode and encode words accurately.

UP:ELA21.1.R2

Vocabulary

  • Decode
  • Encode
  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences
  • Word-analysis skills

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Phoneme (sound) to grapheme (letter or letters) correspondences to encode (spell) words accurately.
  • Grapheme (letter or letters) to phoneme (sound) correspondences to decode (read) words accurately.
  • Word-analysis skills.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Encode and decode words accurately using knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences.
  • Encode and decode words accurately using word analysis skills.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Mapping graphemes to phonemes is essential for learning to read or decode words efficiently.
  • Mapping phonemes to graphemes is essential for learning to spell or encode words efficiently.
  • Analyzing a word's structure helps to read and spell a word.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.7

Apply knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and word analysis skills to decode and encode words accurately both in isolation and within decodable, grade-appropriate texts.

UP:ELA21.1.7

Vocabulary

  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences
  • Word-analysis skills
  • Decode
  • Encode
  • Isolation
  • Decodable, grade-appropriate texts

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences.
  • Word-analysis skills.

Skills

Students are able to:
In isolation and within decodable, grade-appropriate texts,
  • Decode and encode words by applying phoneme-grapheme correspondences.
  • Decode and encode words using word-analysis skills.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Graphemes (letter symbols) represent specific phonemes (sounds) they can use to decode (read) words.
  • Phonemes (speech sounds) can be represented by graphemes (letter symbols) to encode (spell) words.
  • Word-analysis skills are used to determine how to decode or encode based on position, adjacent letters, etc.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.7h

With prompting and support, decode words with common vowel team syllables, including ai, ay, ee, ea, igh, ie, oa, ou, ow, au, aw, oe, oo, ew, oi, oy, and ue.

UP:ELA21.1.7h

Vocabulary

  • Decode
  • Common vowel team syllables
  • Prompting
  • Support

Knowledge

  • Common vowel team syllables.

Skills

  • With prompting and support, decode (read) words with common vowel team syllables, including ai, ay, ee, ea, igh, ie, oa, ou, ow, au, aw, oe, oo, ew, oi, oy, and ue.

Understanding

  • A vowel team is a combination of two, three, or four letters that make a vowel sound.
  • A vowel team syllable always begins with a vowel, and it could be followed by another vowel(s) or consonant(s).
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.31

Apply knowledge of grade-appropriate phoneme-grapheme correspondences and spelling rules (or generalizations) to encode words accurately.

UP:ELA21.1.31

Vocabulary

  • Knowledge
  • Grade-appropriate
  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences
  • Spelling rules
  • Encode
  • Accurately

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Grade-appropriate phoneme-grapheme correspondences.
  • Spelling rules (or generalizations).

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Encode (spell) words accurately by applying knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and spelling rules.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • They can use spelling generalizations/rules, syllable division principles, and their knowledge of letter-sound correspondences to spell and write words accurately.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.31f

With prompting and support, encode words with the common vowel teams and diphthongs.

UP:ELA21.1.31f

Vocabulary

  • Encode
  • Common vowel teams
  • Common diphthongs
  • Prompting
  • Support

Knowledge

  • Common vowel teams and diphthongs, such as ee, ea, oa, ai, a, au, aw, oi, oy, ou, ow, oo, igh.

Skills

  • With prompting and support, encode (write/spell) words with common vowel teams and diphthongs.

Understanding

  • Vowel teams are a combination of two, three, or four letters that represent one vowel sound.
  • Diphthongs are a combination of vowels that glide in the middle due to a shifting mouth position.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.R2

Use knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and word analysis skills to decode and encode words accurately.

UP:ELA21.2.R2

Vocabulary

  • Decode
  • Encode
  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences
  • Word-analysis skills

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Phoneme (sound) to grapheme (letter or letters) correspondences to encode (spell) words accurately.
  • Grapheme (letter or letters) to phoneme (sound) correspondences to decode (read) words accurately.
  • Word-analysis skills.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Accurately encode and decode words using knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences.
  • Accurately encode and decode words using word analysis skills.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Mapping graphemes to phonemes is essential for learning to read or decode words efficiently.
  • Mapping phonemes to graphemes is essential for learning to spell or encode words efficiently.
  • Analyzing a word's structure helps to read and spell a word.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.10

Apply knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences, multisyllabic word construction, and syllable division principles to decode and encode (spell) words accurately in isolation and in context.

UP:ELA21.2.10

Vocabulary

  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences
  • Multisyllabic word construction
  • Syllable division principles
  • Decode
  • Encode
  • Isolation
  • In context

Knowledge

Student know:
  • Spoken words can be represented in print by using letter symbols (graphemes) to represent sounds (phonemes).
  • Printed words can be read by saying the sound (phoneme) that is represented by the letter symbols (graphemes).
  • Multisyllabic words contain more than one syllable, and multisyllabic words can be constructed by combining individual syllables.
  • Syllable division is breaking words apart by the syllables.
  • Decode means to read, and encode means to spell.
  • Decoding and encoding in isolation means reading or spelling a single word, while in context refers to these skills within a larger text.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Read and spell words accurately in isolation and in context based on their knowledge of phoneme-grapheme relationships, multisyllabic word construction, and syllable division principles.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • To read (decode), they must accurately say the sounds (phonemes) that are represented by the letter symbols (graphemes).
  • To spell (encode), they must accurately represent the letter symbols (graphemes) that correspond to the spoken sounds (phonemes).
  • They can use syllable division principles to accurately decode and encode words.
  • They can use their knowledge of the six syllable types to accurately decode and encode words.
  • They will sometimes use these skills in isolation, and other times in context when reading or writing a longer text.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.10e

Decode and encode words with variable vowel teams and vowel diphthongs.

UP:ELA21.2.10e

Vocabulary

  • Decode
  • Encode
  • Variable vowel teams
  • Vowel diphthongs

Knowledge

  • Vowel teams are a combination of two, three, or four letters that represent for one vowel sound.
  • Variable vowel teams are vowel teams that can make different sounds.
  • Diphthongs are single vowel phonemes that glide in the middle.

Skills

  • Accurately decode and encode words with variable vowel teams (examples: ea, ie, oo) and vowel diphthongs (examples: oi, ou).

Understanding

  • Variable vowel teams are also called unpredictable vowel teams because the graphemes make different sounds, such as in meat, head, steak.
  • Vowel diphthongs are a type of vowel team where the mouth position shifts during the production of the single vowel phoneme, such as in boy and cow.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.38

Apply knowledge of grade-appropriate phoneme-grapheme correspondences, multisyllabic word construction, syllable division principles, and spelling rules (or generalizations) to encode words accurately.

UP:ELA21.2.38

Vocabulary

  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences
  • Multisyllabic word construction
  • Syllable division principles
  • Spelling rules
  • Generalizations
  • Encode
  • Accurately

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Grade-appropriate phoneme-grapheme correspondences.
  • Multisyllabic words are words that are composed of two or more syllables.
  • Syllable division principles.
  • Spelling rules (or generalizations).
  • To encode accurately means to spell a word correctly.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Accurately encode (spell) single syllable and multisyllabic words using their knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences, multisyllabic word construction, syllable division principles, and spelling generalization.
  • Accurately divide words into syllables to spell multisyllabic words correctly.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • To spell (encode), they must accurately represent the letter symbols (graphemes) that correspond to the spoken sounds (phonemes).
  • They can use syllable division principles to break a word apart to make it easier to spell.
  • They can use their knowledge of the six syllable types to accurately encode words.
  • There are spelling rules, or generalizations, in the English language that can help them spell words accurately.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.38g

Encode words with the common vowel teams, including diphthongs.

UP:ELA21.2.38g

Vocabulary

  • Encode
  • Vowel teams
  • Diphthongs

Knowledge

  • Vowel teams are a combination of two, three, or four letters that represent for one vowel sound.
  • Diphthongs are single vowel phonemes that glide in the middle.

Skills

  • Encode (spell) words with common vowel teams and diphthongs, such as ai, ay, ea, ee, ei, igh, oa, ow, ou, ue, ew, eigh.

    • Understanding

    • Vowel teams are a combination of two, three, or four letters that represent one vowel sound.
    • Diphthongs are a combination of vowels that glide in the middle due to a shifting mouth position.

    Primary Learning Objectives

    Students will read and write long e words.

    Students will read Sheep in a Jeep with teacher guidance.

    Procedures/Activities

    Before Activity

    Tell students, "Today we will be learning that ee says /e/. First, we will listen to a song about the double e letters, then we practice reading some long e words. Listen and watch the "Double e" song on YouTube. Ask students what the double e says. Next, the teacher will begin writing the long e words on the whiteboard, underlining the ee, and have students decode the words. The teacher will model two or three words before having the students read them.

    During Activity:

    After the entire group has decoded all of the long e words from the whiteboard; students will read these words in sentences from the book. These sentences are written on index cards prior to the lesson. Each student will practice reading the sentence and when they are ready, they will read it to the teacher. Students should read at least three sentences from index cards, or more if time allows. 

    Reading:

    Next, the teacher will show the students the cover of the book. The teacher will say, "You have read words with long e and sentences with long, and now we are going to read a story about a sheep in a jeep that has many long e words. As you whisper read the story to yourself I am going to listen to individuals read the story. If you are struggling with a word we will work on it together when I am listening to you." If students have difficulty with a specific word(s) write them on note cards for the child to practice individually. When everyone has a chance to read the story the group will discuss what happened with the sheep and their jeep in the story.

    After Activity:

    The group will review what ee says. All students who struggled with certain words will be guided to decode the words written on their index cards. The teacher will check for knowledge of these words at the next group meeting time. Students will read the story independently without the teacher's assistance.

    Assessment Strategies

    Students will be assessed to see if they have gained knowledge of the long e (ee) phonics skill using the assessment.

    Acceleration

    If the basic ee words are too simple for the students the teacher can gather a list of advanced ee words and replace them with the ee words. A more difficult text may be needed as well.

    Intervention

    Small groups will be pulled for intervention. Students will review the long e words. Students may use letter tiles to build long e words. Student may write the long e words in a sentence that is decode-able for them individually. The teacher will read the story to the students and then move to reading more independently as each students progresses.

    Total Duration

    31 to 60 Minutes

    Background/Preparation

    The teacher should read the book prior to this lesson. The teacher will choose sight words that their individual students may struggle will or may not be able to read to mastery. The teacher should choose long e words from the story and write them, along with additional long e words, on index cards. The teacher will also need to listen to the "Double e" song to make sure it can be accessed.

    Materials and Resources

    pencils, paper, 6 copies of the picture book Sheep in a Jeep, long e word cards (sheep, beep, jeep, deep, weep), sight word cards, sentences with the long e words from the book written on idex cards, white board and dry erase marker, computer and speakers to listen to YouTube video song "Double e"

    Technology Resources Needed

    Listen to the "Double e" song from YouTube: Between the Lions

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8D1JQSdTSM

    Approved Date

    2014-06-23
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