mice on ice
Lesson Plan
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Target Words:
- ice
- mice
- nice
- twice
Materials:
- Pictures of mice*
- Blue paper, a tray with salt, or cellophane
- Word-building cards*
- Mice on Ice target text*
*Items included below.
State and Model the Objective
The children will pretend to watch mice skate on ice and will read and write words with the long-i-silent-e vowel pattern, such as ice, mice, nice, and twice.
Literacy Activity
Skate on ice
- Using the blue paper, a tray with salt, or cellophane, set up a pretend ice rink and label it Nice ice.
- Point out the long-i-silent-e vowel pattern and explain that the letter c followed by an e makes the /s/ sound.
- Read the target text Mice on Ice (found below) to the children.
- Allow the children to use the ice rink and pictures of mice (found below) so the mice can slide and glide on the ice.
- Ask the children to pretend to have the mice slip and fall twice.
- Help the children make a list of words that end with -ice (e.g., ice, nice, mice, twice).
More Practice
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds
- With word-building cards (found below), help the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
- Change the beginning consonant(s): nice→ mice, rice→ dice, twice→ price
- Change the vowel: rice→ race, lice→ lace, ice→ ace
- Change the ending consonant(s): mice→ mine, rice→ ride, lice→ lime, pride→ price
Read target words in texts
- Have the children underline the words with the long-i-silent-e spelling pattern in the target text Mice on Ice (found below).
- Read the text to the children and then engage them in reading the text with you.
- Allow the children to read Mice on Ice again, fading support.
Write about the activity
- Introduce a word wall displaying target words (e.g., mice, ice, nice, twice).
- Have the children refer to the word wall as they write about mice on ice.
SEEL Target Texts
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Mice on Ice
I see ice!
It is nice to skate on ice.
The ice is very nice today.
I can skate on the ice!
I like to skate on ice.
It is nice to skate on ice.
The ice is very nice today.
I can skate on the ice!
I like to skate on ice.
Look!
I see mice on the ice.
The mice must like to skate on ice.
The mice like to slide and glide on the ice.
Those silly mice love the ice!
I like to see mice sliding and gliding on ice.
I see mice on the ice.
The mice must like to skate on ice.
The mice like to slide and glide on the ice.
Those silly mice love the ice!
I like to see mice sliding and gliding on ice.
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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Mice on Ice