Building Skills
Phonics: ea digraph
Write the word seal on the board and have students read it with you. Ask students what vowel sound they hear and what letters stand for that vowel sound. Explain that the ea digraph often stands for the long e sound. Write the word great on the board, and have students read it with you. Ask students what vowel sound they hear and what letters make this sound. Explain that sometimes the letters ea can stand for the long a sound. Finally, write the word weather on the board, and have students read it with you. Ask what vowel sound they hear in the first part of the word and what letters make this sound. Explain that sometimes the ea digraph can stand for the short e sound.
Hand out worksheet 2 and instruct students to write the ea digraph words under the correct pronunciation box: seal, great, or weather. Have students decide which sound is most common.
Word Work: contractions
Write the word don’t on the board. Ask students what two words make up this contraction. Write the words do and not under the word don’t. Discuss how the contraction is formed by dropping the o and adding an apostrophe in its place. Have students find other contractions in the book. Write them on the board and have students tell you the two words that make up each contraction. Words they will find are: isn’t, that’s, doesn’t, it’s, you’d, we’re, wouldn’t, we’ll.
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