READING 6 CLASS

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Little Bo-Peep

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,And can’t tell where to find them.Leave them alone and they’ll come homeAnd bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, and dreamt she heard them bleating;But when she awoke, she found it a joke,For they were still a-fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,Determined to find them;She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,For they’d left their tails behind

them.

It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray

Unto a meadow hard

by;There she

espied their tails side by

sideAll hung on a tree to dry.

Then she heaved a sigh, and wiped her

eye,And ran o’er

hill and dale-oAn tried what

she could, as a shepherdess

should,To tack to each sheep its tail-o.

Let us read some words taken from the poem.

• peep• fleeting• sheep• indeed• leave• bleed• asleep• tree• bleating• heaved• each • she

What’s the common

sound you hear?

Repeat it three times.

The Sound / e /

• speak• reef• freeze• lead• reach• sieve• least• tease• chief• wheel

• meat• sheet• bleach• beard• beef• bleep• grieve• fear• dream • he

Alternate spellings for this sound:

• 1. e as in she, be• 2. ea as in each,

peach• 3. ee as in deer,

heel• 4. ei as in

receive, deceive

Peter, Peter, pumpkin eaterHad a wife and couldn’t keep

her.He put her in a pumpkin shell,

And there he kept her very

well.

Read the following phrases:

• a big feast• refused to kneel• couldn’t believe it• bad to cheat• a sweet potato• walk by the sea• blessed by the priest• late for the meeting• read at night• call the leader

Underline all the words with the long e sound in the given sentences.

• 1. The priest received a plaque for leadership.

• 2. I could feel the breeze from the sea.

• 3. Steve agreed to rake all the dry leaves in the yard.

• 4. My niece was stung by a bee at the knee.

• 5. The evening breeze made me feel comfortable.

Pick out all the words with the long e sound.

Jack Sprat could eat no fat

His wife could eat no lean.

And so between them both, you

seeThey licked the platter clean.

Molly, my sister, and I fell out.And what do

you think it was all about?

She loved coffee and I loved tea,And that was the reason we

could not agree.