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📖 1st Grade · ELARF.1.3cUnit 4: Long vowels with silent e

u_e and e_e

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🎯 Objective: Students read and spell u_e and e_e words.

Lesson outline

  1. Word chains: cub → cube, cut → cute; e_e: these, Pete.
  2. Read and sort.
  3. Dictation.
  4. Exit: spell cute and these.

Lesson 3 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RF.1.3c

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Know the final -e convention for long vowel sounds
  • Read and spell CVCe words

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Short & long vowels, blends📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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  5. Silent e review

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