State and Model the Objective
The children will pretend to creep and sneak through a creepy house and then read and write words with long e spellings -ee and -ea, such as feel, creep, eek, peek, creak, squeak, speak, and sneak.

Literacy Activities
Pretend to creep and sneak

• Read the target text Creep and Sneak in a Creepy House (found below). 
• Have the children imitate the actions in the story:
  • Sneak, creep, and tiptoe toward the picture of a creepy house (found below).
  • Pretend not to peek or speak.
  • Feel around.
  • Make a creaking noise.
  • Hold a finger up to your mouth to indicate “Do not speak.”
  • Make a squeaking noise.
  • Peek down at a squeaky mouse (toy or picture found below).
  • Shout, “Eek!”
• Write the words creep and sneak on the board and call attention to the same long e sound. 

Act out -ea and -ee actions

• Have the children choose a word card (found below) and read the word.
• Let the children act out the word on each card (e.g., sneak, creep, peek, squeak, creak, feel, speak, leap, beep).

More Practice 
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• With word-building cards (found below), have the children make new words by changing either the vowel or the beginning or ending consonant(s):
  • Change the beginning consonant(s): weep→ deep, sneak→ speak, peep→ beep
  • Change the ending consonant(s): leap→ leak, beat→ bead, creep→ creek
  • Change the vowels and the meaning of the word: peak→ peek, beat→ beet, weak→ week 

Read target words in texts

• Engage the children in reading Creep and Sneak in a Creepy House.
• Have the children write a list of the -ee and -ea words from dictation. 
• Read the text again, fading support
• Repeat with What Squeaks in My Creepy House? (found below).

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Give each child a paper and pencil and let them write words from dictation (e.g., creep, feel, peek, eek, beep, sneak, creak, squeak, speak, leap). 
• Let them write about what they did while sneaking through the creepy house (e.g., “I can sneak and creep in the creepy house. I don’t make a peep and I don’t speak. I hear a mouse squeak.”).