State and Model the Objective
The children will race face-to-face, race cases, and then read long-a–silent-e words that end with -ace and -ase, such as face, race, case, base, and place. 
 
Literacy Activities
Race face-to-face

• Pair up the children.
• Have the pairs draw a face on one side of a paper plate.
• Have the children glue a jumbo craft stick to the plate (to hold).
  • Explain that one child in the pair will place the paper plate on one side of their face.
  • Instruct the other child to place their face against the plate.
• Tell the pairs that they must work together to not let the plate fall.
• Explain that you will tell them to go at a slow or fast pace during the race.
• Repeat the activity as desired. 

Race a Case 

• Have the children make two teams.
• Designate a base on the other side of the room that the children can try to slide their case to. 
• Display the Race a Case target text so that the children can see it. 
• Read the target text to the children. 
• Engage the children in reading the target text with you while you underline the long-a–silent-e words that the children identify.
• Designate one child from each team to quickly slide their case to the base every time they see, or hear, the underlined long-a–silent-e words as the class reads the target text again.
• The case that makes it to the base first wins.
• Repeat until the end of the target text.

More Practice
Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Write a prompt on the board (e.g., In a face-to-face race, we got to . . .). 
• Have the children tell you ideas.
• Guide the children’s responses with questions or prompts.
  • We found a ___(place or base) for the ___(race).
  • We put a ___(face) by each ___(place).  
  • We got to race a ___(case from place to place or from face to face).  
• Have the children write 2–3 sentences about the face-to-face race.