
Lesson Plan
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Target Words:
- eat
- beak
- peas
- peach
- treat
- speak
Materials:
- Picture cards with ea words*
- Paper bag puppet or beak pattern*
- My Beak Can Eat target text*
*Items included below.
State and Model the Objective
The children will eat with a beak and then read and write words spelled with ea, such as speak, peas, treat, peach, and eat.
Literacy Activities
Eat with a beak
- Use the beak to read My Beak Can Eat (found below) to the children.
- Choose a child to pick a picture card (found below) that the beak will eat.
- Have the beak only eat words that have a long e vowel with the ea spelling.
More Practice
Read target words and patterns introduced in the activity
- Give each child a copy of the My Beak Can Eat text.
- Read the text together as a class.
- Have the children underline words that have the long e vowel with ea spelling.
Write about the activity using target words and patterns
- Instruct the children to complete the sentence, “If I had a beak, I would eat . . .” by writing a food with ea, such as beans, peas, meats, treats, peaches.
SEEL Target Texts
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My Beak Can Eat
I have a beak.
The beak can eat.
The beak can eat peas.
The beak can eat meat.
The beak eats peas and meat.
Can the beak eat beans?
Can the beak eat a peach?
Yes! The beak can eat beans and a peach.
What a treat for the beak!
Standards
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1. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.B: Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
2. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.C: Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

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My Beak Can Eat