State and Model the Objective
The children will help Queen Jean eat a meal as they read and write words with the two long e spellings -ee and -ea, such as lean, queen, feast, and beans. 

Literacy Activities
Help Queen Jean eat a feast of a meal

• Place out a feast for Queen Jean using toy food, imaginary food, or the food pictures (found below).
• Create a puppet using the template for the Queen Jean puppet (found below). and a paper bag, or use the picture of Queen Jean (found below).
• Comment on how Queen Jean is as lean (skinny) as a green bean.
• Display the Queen Jean target text and read it with the children. 
• Let the children act out the target text:
  • Tell the queen to please take a seat. 
  • Read what the queen can eat for her meal at the feast.
  • Serve the queen what she will eat: wheat, meat, green peas, green beans, cheese, and a sweet treat.
  • Let the queen eat and then leave the feast.

More Practice 
Sort words according to spelling pattern

• Have the children write the words from the text with the long e spellings on strips of paper (e.g., wheat, meat, queen, Jean, feast, seat, read, please, peas, cheese, sweet, treat, leave).
• Using the words that the children wrote, have them sort the words according to the -ea and -ee spellings.

Read target words and patterns introduced in the text

• Engage the children in reading Queen Jean (found below).
• Instruct the children to find and underline each of the -ee and -ea words.
• Read the text again, fading support.

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Suggest foods that Queen Jean can eat and let the children list the menu items: meat, beans, peas, treats, sweet wheat, and beets. 
• Let the children write other -ee and -ea words from dictation (e.g., lean, queen, feast, meal, beast, seat, read, please, leave). 
• Let the children write about Queen Jean (e.g., Queen Jean is as lean as a green bean. Queen Jean can eat a sweet treat at a feast. Queen Jean likes a meal of cheese and peas. Queen Jean leaves her seat at the feast.").