Teach Children the Letter E
Preschool teachers and daycare providers can help children learn to recognize and write the letter E through fun activities that support clear learning objectives. Implementing activities that support clear learning objectives, preschool teachers can create brilliant lesson plans that help young children learn the letter E and the long E sound.
Learning Objectives
The students will identify the letter E.
The students make and recognize the long E sound.
The students will correctly trace and write upper and lower case Es.
The students will identify objects that begin with or include the long E sound.
The students will play a flashlight alphabet game.
The students will listen to books about things that start with or include the long E sound.
The students will learn the “Bees, Bees, Bees” song.
Handwriting and Phonetics Activities
Create a letter E poster board which shows both the upper and lower case E. Glue pictures of objects cut from magazines that begin with the letter E. Alternatively, you can draw or paint objects that begin with E. Introduce the children to the letter E along with simple objects that begin with the letter E.
Demonstrate the E sound and ask the children to make (repeat) the E sound. Ask students what items they can think of (objects, names, etc.) that begin with the letter E. Let children practice tracing the letter E in both upper and lower case using letter E worksheets. A good example of such a worksheet that focuses on the long E sound is available on the KidsLearningStation.com website. Additionally, children can practice tracing upper and lower case Es on blank sheets of paper using pencils or crayons.
Cognitive Learning: Object Sorting
For this cognitive learning activity, place toy or real objects which begin with a long E sound or contain the long E sound in a box or other container. Examples include: eel, tree, Easter, bee, eleven, key, and sheep. Along with these items, place objects beginning with various other letters. As you pull each object out, students will sort (recognize) those that begin or contain the long E sound from those that do not.
Story Time: Letter E Books
Eve’s Green Garden: The Sound of Long E (Sounds of Phonics) by Cecilia Minden and Bob Ostrom (Aug 2010)
Meet Me on the Farm: Learning the Long E Sound (Phonics for the Real World) by Shelby Braidich (Jan 2009)
Bob Books Set 5- Long Vowels by Bobby Lynn Maslen and John R. Maslen (May 1, 2006)
The Hiding Eel (Stone Arch Readers) by Cari Meister and Steve Harpster (Aug 1, 2011)
Think of an Eel: Read and Wonder by Karen Wallace and Mike Bostock (Apr 1, 2001)
Tell Me, Tree: All About Trees for Kids by Gail Gibbons (Apr 1, 2002)
Let’s Have a Tree Party! by David Martin and John Manders (Mar 13, 2012)
Life on a Sheep Farm (Life on a Farm) by Judy Wolfman and David Lorenz Winston (Oct 2003)
Flashlight Letters Game
Get a flashlight and turn off the lights in the room or close the blinds so the room is dark. Using the flashlight, make giant letter Es on a wall. Encourage each child to practice making upper and lower case E’s with the flashlight.
Preschool Long E Song
Bees, Bees, Bees*
Bees, Bees, Bees, Bees
Buzzing in bushes and buzzing in trees
Buzzing around, wherever they please
There’s nothing so sweet
As sweet as a honey bee.
Bees, Bees, Bees, Bees
Buzzing in bushes and buzzing in trees
Buzzing around, wherever they please
There’s nothing so sweet
As sweet as a honey bee.
*Taken from PreschoolEducation.com
Alphabet recognition activities will greatly enhance preschoolers’ language learning. The key is to have fun with your daycare job through lesson planning and make each moment of learning fun and creative.
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