1. L ESSON P LAN ON L ONG E W ORDS By: Erin O’Connor

2. G OALS OF THE L ESSON The goal of the lesson is that students will be able to segment one-syllable words into phonemes in order to spell Long e words. VSC Standards 1.0 General Reading Process B- phonics 2- decode words in grade-level texts b- decode words with letter combinations, such as consonant digraphs, blends, and special vowel patterns

3. I NTRODUCING THE L ESSON Review with the students what the different long vowel sounds are Students will say each long vowel sounds out load Students will state the rules they know about long vowels As a class we will read Sheep in a Jeep As we read the story students will identify long e words in the story After we have read the story students will sort these words into ee and ea words

4. O NLINE M ATERIALS www.starfall.com Online story “Pete’s Sheep” Online activity building ee words http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/ Online poem “Meet the Creeps” Online poem “A Meal by the Sea” Both poems have two activities to complete after they read the poem

5. O THER M ATERIALS A set of index cards with long e words Students will be required to sort them into ee and ea words A long e worksheet from enchantedlearning.com Students will be required to complete at least three of these pictures

6. A SSESSMENT After these tasks are complete students will write at least 3 sentences with at least 5 different long e words spelled correctly.

7. G RADING R UBRIC PR- The student will write at least three complete sentences with at least 5 long e words spelled correctly IP- The student will write at least 3 complete sentences with 3 to 4 long e words spelled correctly EM- The student will write 2 complete sentences with 3 to 4 long e words spelled correctly ND- The student writes less than two complete sentences or less than 3 long e words spelled correctly