Letter "Ee" Short Sound

 TOPIC: Letter "Ee" Short sound

OBJECTIVES:

1. Learn and practise mouth formation for different sounds of the alphabet

2. Identify letter "e" and associate with sound 

3. Identify words with letter sound "e".

4. Identify position of sound (initial, ending)

CONTENT :

The letter "Ee" is the fifth letter of the alphabet. It is a special letter. It is the second vowel. It has a long sound and a short sound. It is an unusual letter because it starts in the middle. Examine the common "e" below.

ENGAGE:

Revise sounds already learnt. /s/a/t/i/p/n/c/k/

Listen to the video clip below to learn about letter "e"

Video clip 1

Students will make the sound of the short /Ee/, while paying attention to mouth formation.

Pronounce the words highlighted in the clip, stressing the short sound /e/.

EXPLORE:

Segment the letters below to pronounce the words below. Eg. e/gg/.

Listen to the video clip below to inspect how the letter "Ee" is written.
video clip 2

Teacher will blend the words set, pet, tent neck.

Say the sounds with the children, then blend the sounds together and read the words.

eg. s/e/t, p/e/t, t/e/n/t, n/e/ck 

Listen to a set of words and determine which does not have the /e/ sound.

eg. 1. elephant, ant, elf, elbow, every

      2. sat, enemy, egg, empty, exercise 

EXPLAIN:

Supply words with initial short /e/ sounds.

Determine the location of the /e/ sound in words (initial, middle).

Make the sound of short /e/.

Form both upper and lower case "Ee".

ELABORATE:

Dictate the words set, ten, peck, neck, net, pet, sent, tent, step, nest, pest, spent, kept, test, spent

Students will hold up a finger for each sound heard. Teacher will have individual students spelling the words orally.

Teacher will have students segmenting  phonemes to call the words above fluently together again.

EVALUATE: 

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FOLLOW UP PRACTICE ACTIVITIES

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16. Activity 16  Practise Sight words

17. Activity 17 Sight words

18. Activity 18 Vocabulary sight words

19 Activity 19 Sight word exercise

20 Activity 20 Sight words

21. Sight words