Magic E Featuring Long A Vowel & TARGET FINDS
We are finally getting through some Phonic instruction without all the awful inturruption of Benchmarking. This week, we had a little fun with my newest packet….
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| The Incredible, Magical “e” – Featuring Long Vowel “a” |
To introduce this magical creature, I started with a little mini-lesson on example and non-example words and had the students generate ideas about the “rule” of why the example words were different from the non-example words.
The point of this little activity is to have the students investigate the difference without me having to just tell them the rule. If they discover the rule on their own, they will have an easier time remembering it. My students noticed that the words were both the same except the e at the end of the example words. They weren’t sure how to read the words out loud, but after a few wrong attempts, one student got it! I explained the the e at the end of the words in the example make the a have the long vowel sounds – or make it say it’s own name.
Once students began making these generalizations about the examples, I introduced my little “e” wand and we practiced changing different short vowel words to long vowel words using MAGIC!
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| This illustration cracks me up! |
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| Bird Clippies to hold together cards for activitys during a lesson |
Enjoy your Monday! It’s snowing here – Always a good thing!
