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Sweet Reading Success

Vowel Teams: EE and EA

Day 20of 180
Week 4of 36
25Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Decode words with ee and ea vowel teams

2

Read a decodable text with increased fluency

3

Understand how God helps us learn and grow

📖 Scripture Connection

Proverbs 4:13

“Hold fast to instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.”

— Proverbs 4:13 (WEB)

Learning to read is like holding onto wisdom and growing in understanding

📦 Materials Needed

  • Decodable story book
  • Colored sticky notes
  • Pencils
  • Reading fluency chart
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (5 min)

Gather students and review previous day's ee and ea words. Sing a vowel team song together.

💭 Review Question: Can you tell me a word with the ee sound?
2Teaching (8 min)

Introduce today's decodable story, highlighting ee and ea words throughout the text.

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Listen for ee and ea words
  • Track words with your finger while reading
  • Practice reading smoothly
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What ee or ea words did you hear?
  • What was your favorite part of the story?
3Activity: Fluency Reading Challenge (8 min)
reading

Students will read the decodable text multiple times, tracking their own progress

📝 Instructions:
  1. Read the story first time slowly
  2. Mark ee and ea words with sticky notes
  3. Read again with more confidence
  4. Record reading time and smoothness on fluency chart
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Read with a partner

Challenge: Time yourself and try to improve each reading

4Closing (4 min)

Celebrate reading progress and discuss how learning helps us grow closer to God

📝 Review Questions:
  • What ee words did you find?
  • What ea words did you find?
  • How did reading make you feel today?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear God, thank you for helping us learn and grow. Please bless our reading and help us understand Your words.

Coming up: Next week, we'll explore more exciting vowel sounds!

💎 Memory Verse

Proverbs 4:13

“Hold fast to instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.”

— Proverbs 4:13 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Create hand motions for each key word

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Children are learning to decode words with ee and ea vowel teams

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Practice reading together at home
  • Encourage slow, smooth reading
  • Celebrate reading attempts
🤔 Common Struggles:

Mixing up ee and ea sounds, reading too quickly

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Increased confidence in reading, correct vowel team pronunciation

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Create a word hunt for ee and ea words in other books
  • Draw pictures of words with ee and ea sounds
  • Play a matching game with ee and ea words

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