- In this post you will find:
-long e spelling patterns
-long e stories
-long e songs
-long e worksheets
-long e activities
Have you ever asked a small child the question, “What does a cat say?” or “What does a cow say?” Of course you have! It’s fun, and it’s pretty adorable to hear little kids meow or moo.
Learning to identify letters and their sounds isn’t that much different from learning to identify an animal and reproducing the sound that the animal makes.
Your child has a name, and your child has a way to spell that name. The same is true for letters. Because long vowels usually “spell” their name in a word, I prefer to ask kids to tell me if a letter is saying its name or saying its sound.
How a vowel spells its name can be tricky. Just like the name Kayden might be spelled Kayden, Caden, Kadyn, or Cayden, there can be multiple ways for a vowel to spell its name in a word.
Let’s look at how the Vowel E can spell its name!
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When I begin teaching Long Vowel E, I start with a video that shows a couple ways that Vowel E can spell its name:
After this video, I let my students know that ee and ea are just two of the ways Vowel E can spell its name. I let them know that there are more including ey, and -y, ie and sometimes just e. I then have my students complete the long e sorting sheet in the Long Vowel E packet.
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Now it is time to dive deeper into different ways Vowel E can spell its name in a word. I teach long vowel E in this order:
ee
ea
ey
y
Here are the steps I use to teach long vowel E:
- Listen to the song
- Read the word cards from the packet.
- Watch and read the story.
- Spell words for that skill using the fingers/boxes method.
- Play the memory game.
- Extend the fun with the extension activities.
- Listen to the ee song.
- Read the ee word cards from the Long E packet.
- First, watch and listen to the ee story. Next, mute the story and replay it giving your student a chance to read the words.
- Have your child spell some EE words using the sound counting and box method.
example:
- Play the EE memory game.
- Extend the fun with BEE activities.
Draw a bee:
- Listen to the EA song.
- Read the word cards from the Long E packet.
- First, watch and listen to the EA story. Next, mute the story and replay it giving your student a chance to read the words.
Bonus ee/ea story:
- Have your child spell EA words using the sound counting and boxes method.
Example:
- Extend with eagle activities.
How to draw an eagle:
- Listen to the EY song.
- Read the EY words from the Long E packet.
- Listen to the ey/y story. Mute the story and play it again. Have your student read it if possible.
- Have your student spell EY words using the sound counting and boxes method.
- Play the EY memory game from the packet.
- Let’s learn about turkeys!
- Listen to the Y song
- Read the word cards from the Long E packet.
- Listen to the ey/y story. Mute the story and play it again. Have your student read it if possible.
- Have your student spell -Y words using the sound counting and boxes method.
- Play the -Y memory game.
- Extend with BUNNY activities.