State the Objective

• Tell the children that they will read words with the long-a-silent-e vowel pattern while they trade for things with the long-a sound.

Literacy Activities
 

Read the text

• Read the Will You Trade with Me? text (see below) with the children, emphasizing the words that follow the long-a-silent-e vowel pattern.

• Ask the children to find long-a-silent-e words in the text.

   

• Help the children make a list of the words with the long-a-silent-e pattern.

Make a trade

• Give the children most of the word cards (see below) and keep some for yourself.
• Tell the children that they will trade words with a long a and silent e.
• Trade the cards with the children. Ask questions and make comments:
  • Would you trade a cane for a game?
  • Would you like a cake? It has a round shape.
  • I’ve got a lake. Do you have a cake?

Write about the activity

• Have the children write long-a-silent-e words from dictation (eg., made, grape, lace, trade, cane, cake, rake, cape, tape, game, lake, plate, snake, and shape).
• Have the children write sentences about things they can trade:
  • I got to trade a ____ for a _____.
  • I made a trade for a _____.
  • Will you take a ___ for a _____?
  • I can trade a ____ for a _____.