State the Objective

Tell the children that they will save money at a sale while they practice words with the long-a-silent-e vowel pattern. 

Literacy Activities

Save at the sale

• Read the target Kate at the Sale target text (see below) with the children. 
• Tell the children that they will go to a sale like Kate and look for long-a-silent-e items. 
• Lay the picture cards on a table and have the children look for items they want to buy.
• Have a child pretend to be a cashier and check that items have a long a. 

           - If an item has a long a, have the customer say, “___ has a long a and                            is on sale! I’ll take it!”

           - If the item does not have the long a, have the customer say “__ does not have              a long a. It’s not on sale.”

• Have the children write a sentence about a sale item that they want to take home.

   

A whale named Jake 

• Read the A Whale Named Jake target text (see below) with the children.
• Have the children help you read the text.
• Have the children underline the long-a-silent-e words in the text. 

Count the letters and sounds

• Show a list of long-a-silent-e words (e.g., sale, save, make, game, take) and ask:
  • “How many letters are in the word?” 
  • “How many sounds are in the word?” 
  • Support as necessary.

Change a sound

• Use word-building cards (see below) to emphasize how the silent e makes the long a vowel sound.
  • plane→ crane, cake → take, game → name, save → wave, plane → lane
  • sale → save, gate → game, take → tape, race → rake, plate → plane
• Have the children write long a words from dictation (e.g., sale, save, make, game, take).