“E says EEHHHHHH, like a creaky door!”
Rationale:This lesson teaches children about the short vowel correspondence e=/e/. In order to be able to read, children must learn to recognize the spellings that map word pronunciations. In this lesson children will learn to recognize, spell, and read words containing the spelling e. They will learn a representation (a creaky door), they will spell and learn words containing the letter e= /e/ letterbox lesson, and read a book that focuses on the correspondence.
Materials: Letterbox squares, letter manipulative for the words listed, list of spelling words on poster to read:bat, men, net, bed, best, want; decodable text: Red gets Fed ,and assessment worksheet.
Procedures: 1. Say: In order to become expert readers we need to learn how to pronounce words. Today we are going to learn about long short e. When I say /e/ I think of a door and how it creaks and sounds like a great long /e-e-e-e-eh/ [show image of door].
2. Say: Before we learn about the spelling of /e/, we need to listen for it in some words. When I listen for /e/ in words, I hear e say its name /e/ and my lips pull back and the sound comes from the bottom of my mouth. I’ll show you first: bent. I heard the /e/ and I felt my lips pull back. There is a short e in bent. Now I’m going to see if it’s in the word cat. I don’t hear /e/ and my lips don’t pull back. Now your turn!. If you hear /e/ say, “e-e-eh like the door. ”If you don’t hear /e/ say, “I don’t hear it”Is it in sent, band, pet, pen, kit, ten?
3. Say: Now let’s look at the spelling of /e/ ! What if I want to spell the word bent? “I bent down to tie my shoes.” To spell bent in letterboxes, first I need to know how many phonemes I have in the word so I stretch it out and count: /b/e/n/t. I need 4 boxes in my letter box lesson.. I heard that /e/ just before the /n/ so I’m going to put an e in the 2nd box. Now I’m going to say it slowly, /b/e/n/t/. I think I heard /t/ so I’ll put a t right after the n. [Point to letters in boxes when stretching out the word: /b/e/n/t/.]
4.Say: Now I’m going to have you spell some words in letterboxes. You’ll start out easy with three boxes for bat. “I like your baseball bat” What should go in the first box? [Respond to children’s answers]. What goes in the second box? You’ll need three letterboxes for the next word. Listen for the beginning sound that goes in the first box. Then listen for /e/ and don’t forget that the creaky door says /e-e-eh/. Here’s the word: men [Allow children to spell words.] Time to check your work. Watch how I spell it in my letterboxes on the board: m-e-n and see if you’ve spelled it the same way. Try another with four boxes: best; She is the best at math. [Have volunteer spell it in the letterbox on the front board for children to check their work]. Now let’s try 5 phonemes: Listen to see if this word has /e/ in it before you spell it: slept; I slept great last night.[volunteer spells it on the front board.]
5. Say: Now I am going to let you read the words you’ve spelled, but first I’ll show you how I would read a tough word. [Display poster with strep on the top and model reading the word.] There’s the vowel e. It must say /e/. I’m going to use a cover-up to get the first part. [Uncover and blend sequentially before the vowel, then blend with the vowel.] /s/t/r/ = /str/. Now I’m going to blend that with /e/ = /stre/. Now all I need is the end, /p/ = /p/ Now put it all together: /stre/ + /p/ = /strep/. Now it’s your turn, everyone together. [Have children read words in unison. Afterwards, call on individuals to read one word on the list until everyone has had a turn.]
6. Say: You’ve done a great job and reading words with our new spelling for /e/ Now we are going to read a book called “Red Gets Fed”. This is a story about a dog named Red and about if he will or will not get fed. Is Red being a “good boy” we will have to read to find out!!
7. Say: That was a good story. Did Red get Fed? Yes! What did Red do to the Dad? (show picture if needed? Yes, that's right, he begs and begs! Before we finish up with our lesson about one way to spell with /e/, I want to see how you can find /e/.
Assessment: Students will complete a worksheet. In this worksheet students will look at the picture for each word and fill in the missing letter that completes the word to match the picture. Once students have finished competing the words they will color each picture on the page.
References:
file:///Users/mckenziegriggs/Downloads/MTS-Short-Vowel-E-Worksheet.pdf
https://sites.google.com/view/language-and-literacy/home/every-e-say-e