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.