E Everywhere

E Everywhere
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Target text

Objective

Recognize and name the uppercase and lowercase letters E and e.

 

Lesson Plan

Target Words:

  • egg
  • exit
  • every
  • enter
  • envelope
  • everywhere

     

Materials:

  • Egg carton
  • Envelope
  • Plastic eggs or pictures of eggs*

     

  • Every E target text*

*Items included below.

State the Objective
Tell the children that they will look for the letter E inside of eggs as they recognize and name the letter E.


Literacy Activities
Fill every egg with an

  • Write and name the letters E and e.
  • Have the children write the E and e in the air with their fingers.
  • Write the word egg on the board and point out that egg starts with the letter E.
  • Help the children write E and e on small pieces of paper.
  • Allow the children to put every E in a plastic egg or attach Es to pictures of eggs (see below).


Find E everywhere

  • Let the children hide the eggs. 
  • Have the children find every egg and open them to find the letter inside.
  • Support the children in naming the letters inside the eggs.
  • Have the children put the empty egg in the egg carton, and put the E in an envelope.
  • Make comments: 
    • “Empty eggs enter the egg carton.”
    • Es exit every egg!”
    • Es enter an envelope!”


Every E

  • Read the Every E text (see below) to the children.
  • Ask the children to point to every E in the text. 
  • Have the children say the letter sound and name every time they find an E: /e/, /e/, /e/-E!

 

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SEEL Target Texts

Every E

E is everywhere!
An E enters an egg,
Every E enters an egg.
An E exits an egg,
Every E exits an egg.
Eggs enter the E egg carton.
E goes in an envelope!
E is everywhere! 
 

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