Long e as e-e; sentences
Grade K · Day 140 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 91 · p.99 · 25.4 min · teacher edition of the student sheet
Read these · 14 words
gene
here
eve
Pete
scene
mere
Steve
theme
there ◆
were
Swede
these
where ◆
eye
◆ marks a word that does NOT follow today's pattern — Blumenfeld boxes these on the page. Teach it by heart; do not let the class sound it out and lose faith in the rule.
Read the sentences
- I were I Swede..
- these where I I eye I Steve is here.
- Where were Pete and Steve?
- Pete and Steve were here.
- Here is where they were.
- Where were they?
- They were here and there.
- "Sit here, not there," said Steve.
Write what you hear
Say the word, have them repeat it, count the sounds on fingers, THEN write. The count is what stops a child writing the first letter and guessing the rest.