This lesson focuses on "magic 'e'" which is an important foundational language concept, so we worked with this lesson for more than a week. Most of the lessons followed the same format: direct instruction with review and introduction of the new concept, application of the new concept, and independent practice of the new concept. We incorporated a fun activity, "Roll and Read" from the UFLI curriculum,  for the students to practice the new concept, which encouraged the students with their learning and understanding of the concept.

I listened in to the students playing this game, making sure that they were applying the "magic 'e'" rule appropriately, which we had reviewed at the beginning of the lesson. This particular "Roll and Read" incorporates all of the applications of "magic 'e'" with all of the vowels, which is great because this allowed me to see which vowels paired with "e" was tripping up students to then go back and review their sound as well as see it in context like a title or sentence.

Incorporating the game encouraged the students and helped with the independent sight reading once we moved on to that activity (depicted on the left). I had the students underline all of the "magic 'e'" words they came across, which helped them visualize when that rule was used and how it looked in a written context. I also was able to use the "Roll and Read" exercise to remind students if they got stuck with sounding out a word or mispronounced the word. Most of the mispronounced words were caught by the student, who went back and sounded out the word, applying the rule and what they did during the activity. If not, I drew the two lines underneath the two vowels as a visual representation to remind them of the review we did.