Use multimodal cues to connect readers to how to pronounce the long vowel sounds using the long vowel staircase. It will be helpful for some readers to watch how they make the sounds in a mirror.
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Book: Let’s Read!
Standards
Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Reader Goals
I can identify the five long vowel sounds with the long vowel digraph team spelling.
Target Words
• ee: bee, queen, screen, feet, teeth
• ea: beach, meat, seal, wheat, bean
• ai: grain, nail, paint, rain, tail
• ay: bay, gray, hay, tray, ray
• ie: pie, tie
• oa: boat, coat, road, soap, toast
• ow: bow, crow, snow, glow, bowl
• ue: blue, glue
• ui: fruit, juice, suit
Helpful Hints
Guide
- Say
Let’s look at the cover of the book. The title says Nouns spelled with the Long Vowel Digraph Team. - Point to each picture as you Say
I see five pictures on the board. Let’s name them together: bee, rain, pie, boat, fruit. They are all nouns and I think they have something in common in terms of how they are spelled.
Guide
- Point to the long vowel staircase and Say
I see a staircase and the long vowel sounds. Let’s start from the top left of the staircase and figure out what this is about. - Ask
How is the mouth at the top left of the staircase different from the mouth at the bottom of the staircase?
(The mouth at the top left is smiling more than the mouth at the bottom which is more open.) - Ask
How is the mouth at the top right of the staircase different from the mouth at the bottom of the staircase?
(The mouth at the top right is rounded more than the mouth at the bottom which is more open.) - Model exaggerating each mouth position with readers: Say
Follow me to make your lips in all three positions–smile, open, and round. - Say
Now let’s hear, see, and feel the long vowel sounds.
We will name the pictures starting with the most smiley and go down the staircase: key, cake, bike. Feel how your lips change from very smiley to open.
Now let’s go up the staircase: coat, cube, blue. Feel how your lips change from more open to very rounded.
The long vowel sounds are the same as the names of the vowels: e, a, i, o, u. Notice the vowel u has two different long vowel pronunciations as in the words cube and blue. Both are round lip sounds /o͞o/ as in blue and /ū/ as in cube. - Say
Now read the book on your own with these long vowel sounds in mind.
Guide
Intervene as needed and Help readers identify the long vowel sounds spelled with the vowel digraph team: Say
I hear the long e sound in these words. We call it a vowel digraph team because two vowels make one sound. This time the vowel digraph team for the long e sound is spelled ee. It’s the first vowel that says its name, and the second vowel is silent.
Guide
Intervene as needed and Help readers identify the long vowel sounds spelled with the vowel digraph team: Say
I hear the long e sound in these words too. This time the long vowel sound is spelled with the letters ea. It’s the first vowel that says its name, and the second vowel is silent. Remember there are different ways to spell the same long vowel sounds with the vowel digraph teams.
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Intervene as needed and Help readers identify the long vowel sounds spelled with the vowel digraph team: Say
I hear the long a sound in these words. We call it a vowel digraph team because two vowels make one sound. This time the long a sound is spelled with the letters ai. It’s the first vowel that says its name, and the second vowel is silent.
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Intervene as needed and Help readers identify the long vowel sounds spelled with the vowel digraph team: Say
I hear the long a sound in these words too. It’s the first vowel that says its name, and the second vowel is silent. This time the long a sound is spelled with the letters ay. Remember there are two ways to spell the long a sounds with the vowel digraph team.
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Intervene as needed and Help readers identify the long vowel sounds spelled with the vowel digraph team: Say
I hear the long i sound in these words. We call it a vowel digraph team because two vowels make one sound. It’s the first vowel that says its name, and the second vowel is silent.
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Intervene as needed and Help readers identify the long vowel sounds spelled with the vowel digraph team: Say
I hear the long o sound in these words. We call it a vowel digraph team because two vowels make one sound. This time it is the letters oa that spell the long o sound. It’s the first vowel that says its name, and the second vowel is silent.
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Intervene as needed and Help readers identify the long vowel sounds spelled with the vowel digraph team: Say
I hear the long o sound in these words too. It’s the first vowel that says its name, and the second vowel is silent. This time it is the letters ow that spell the long o sound. Remember there are two different ways to spell the long o sound with a vowel digraph team.
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Intervene as needed and Help readers identify the long vowel sounds spelled with the vowel digraph team: Say
I hear the long u sound in these words. We call it a vowel digraph team because two vowels make one sound. This time it is the letters ue that spell the long u sound. It’s the first vowel that says its name, and the second vowel is silent.
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Intervene as needed and Help readers identify the long vowel sounds spelled with the vowel digraph team: Say
I hear the long u sound in these words too. It’s the first vowel that says its name, and the second vowel is silent. This time it is the letters ui that spell the long u sound. Remember there are two different ways to spell the long u sound with a vowel digraph team.
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