Grade 1 · Week 7vowel teams
Beach Day Cleanup
Students read a short beach-trip passage and answer six questions that focus on identifying and completing vowel team words, supported by teacher and homeschool guidance.
On screen - your kid, alone
- 1Day 1 - Meet the story
- 2Day 2 - Word work
- 3Day 3 - What it means
- 4Day 4 - Fix & re-read
- 5Day 5 - Show what you know
Offline - with you
Print the pages for offline work together; the answer key is for you.
Read the beach day passage out loud together first, then ask your child to listen for words where two vowels work as a team to make one sound, like the "ea" in beach or the "oa" in coast. As they read, point to a target word and ask, "Which two letters are teaming up here, and what sound do they make?" Strong answers will name the vowel pair (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, ow) and connect it to the sound, such as "ee in green says /ee/" or "ay in day says /ay/." For the comprehension questions, look for answers that come straight from the story, like the class cleaning trash, seeing a seal, or planting seeds. If your child gets stuck, slide a finger under the word and cover everything except the vowel team so they can focus on just those two letters, then blend the sounds back together slowly. You can also build a quick sorting game with index cards using words from the passage—sail, day, feet, sea, boat, grow—and let your child group them by matching vowel teams.
Beach Day Cleanup
Today is beach day! Ms. Lee's team will clean the coast. We sail down the road in a green van. At the sea, we play and stay on the trail. We pick up trash and feet feel the sand. We see a seal! We plant seeds so beach grass can grow low by the dunes.
What this lesson checks
- Sound correspondence: Which word from the passage has the ai vowel team?
- Sound correspondence: Which word from the passage has the ay vowel team?
- Sound correspondence: Find a word in the story that has the ee vowel team. Write the word.
- Sound correspondence: Which word from the passage has the ea vowel team?
- Sound correspondence: Copy a short phrase from the story that has a word with the oa vowel team.
- Sound correspondence: Copy a short phrase from the story that has a word with the ow vowel team.