cones and zones

Cones and Zones

Cones and Zones
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Objective

Read and write words with the long-o-silent-e vowel pattern.

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Lesson Plan

Target Words:

  • cone
  • zone
  • lone
  • stone
  • alone

Materials:

  • Paper crumpled into balls 
  • Paper cone pattern*
  • Pine cones or picture of pine cones*
  • Hand-drawn stones (circles) or paper stone cutouts*
  • Word cards*
  • Word-building cards*
  • Ice Cream Cone Zone target text*
  • Cones to Make Zones target text*

*Items included below.

State and model the objective

Tell the children that they will make a zone of cones and will read and write words with the long o_e spelling, such as zone, cone, and stone.
 

Literacy Activities 
Make a word zone

  • Help the children make paper cones using the pattern (found below).
  • Turn some cones upside down to make traffic cones.
  • Let the children block off an area with the traffic cones.
  • Place word cards (found below) in the word zone.
  • Allow the children to choose a card from the word zone and read the word.
  • Let the children crumple the word into a paper ball and save it for the next activity.

Set up an ice cream cone zone

  • Fill a cone with crumpled balls of paper to make an ice cream cone.
  • Place the traffic cones in another area of the room. 
  • Have the children label the zone Ice Cream Cone Zone.
  • Put one cone in the Ice Cream Cone Zone.
  • Call the cone a “lone cone” and explain that lone means alone.

Make a stone zone from cones

  • Place some more traffic cones in another area of the room.
  • Have the children make a sign that says Stone Zone.
  • Let the children draw stones (circles) or cut out the pictures of stones (found below) and label each one stone.
  • Put the paper stones in the Stone Zone.

Let stones lead to the Ice Cream Cone Zone

  • Place some paper stones in a path that leads to the Ice Cream Cone Zone.
  • Allow the children to follow the stones.  
  • Let the children trade the written word stone for an ice cream cone from the Ice Cream Cone Zone.

Set up a zone for pine cones

  • Help the children set up traffic cones to make a new zone.
  • Let the children write Pine Cone Zone and place their labels on the cones surrounding the zone.

 
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

  • With word-building cards (found below), help the children make words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
    • Change the beginning consonant(s): conezone, lonebone, stonedrone
    • Change the vowel: conecane, loneline, drovedrive
    • Change the ending consonant: conecode, conecope, dronedrove

Read target words in texts

  • Read the Ice Cream Cone Zone target text (found below) to the children, then engage them in reading the text with you.
  • Allow the children to read the Ice Cream Cone Zone again, fading support.
  • Read Cones to Make Zones (found below) with the children and read it a second time, fading support.

 
Write about the activity 

  • Introduce a word wall displaying target words (e.g., cone, stone, zone, lone, alone, tone, drone, phone, prone, shone, throne).
  • Have the children write about cones to make zones with pine cones, ice cream cones, and stones.
     
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SEEL Target Texts

Ice Cream Cone Zone

Let’s go get an ice cream cone.
To get ice cream, we go to the Ice Cream Cone Zone.
Do you see the Ice Cream Cone Zone’s cones?
 
Look! We see a path of stepping stones!
The stepping stones lead to the cones of the Ice Cream Cone Zone.
We can follow the stones to get our ice cream cones!

Cones to Make Zones

Cones mark zones.
Our town has a few zones made with cones.
There is a zone for ice cream cones.
And there is a sign that says Ice Cream Cone Zone.
The Ice Cream Cone Zone has more than just a lone cone.
The Ice Cream Zone has lots of cones.
 
 
There is a zone where we set down stones.
And there is a sign that says Stone Zone.
The Stone Zone has more than just a lone stone.
The Stone Zone has lots of stones.
 
There is a zone where we put pine cones.
And there is a sign that says Pine Cone Zone.
The Pine Cone Zone has more than just a lone pine cone.
The Pine Cone Zone has lots of pine cones.
 
Our town has lots of zones and lots of ice cream cones, stones, and pine cones.
 
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Standards

SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

http://education.byu.edu/seel/library/