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Long Vowels / CVCe — Grade 1 Lesson Plan
Common Core RF.1.3b · 20–30 minutes · whole class or small group
🎯 Objective
Decode CVCe (silent-e) words with long vowel sounds Students practice through a printed warm-up, then reinforce with an interactive game at their own pace.
📄 Warm-up (5–10 min): printable worksheet
Print one per student. Work the first two items together, then let students finish independently.
- Magic-E Intro: Long Vowels — Learn the silent-e rule: adding e makes the vowel say its name
- Long Vowel Sort: CVCe Words — Sort CVCe words by their long vowel sound (a, e, i, o, u)
- Read CVCe Words — Read CVCe words aloud and match them to pictures
🎮 Practice (10 min): online game
Same skill, game form — students who finish the worksheet early start here. Progress saves locally; classrooms with class codes sync to the teacher dashboard.
✅ Wrap-up (5 min): quick check
Call out three words from the worksheet. Students show the answer with fingers (counts) or whiteboards (spellings). Anyone shaky returns to the game's earlier levels for review tomorrow.