englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 SCHOLASTIC and WORD FAMILY TALES and associated designs are trademarks of Scholastic Inc Illustrated by Cary Pillo Produced by Brown Publishing Network ISBN: 0-439-26268-2 Copyright © 2002 by Scholastic Inc All rights reserved Printed in the U.S.A englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources When the night is long and you can’t sleep, just lie in bed and count some sheep englishtips.org One sheep in a jeep englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Two sheep in a traffic jam— BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Three sheep sit and weep englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Four sheep dust and sweep englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Five sheep visit Little Bo Peep englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Six sheep in the ocean deep englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Seven sheep on a hill that’s steep englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Eight sheep quietly creep englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Cheep! Cheep! Nine sheep feeding chickens— englishtips.org 10 Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Cheep! CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEP! englishtips.org 11 Ten sheep fast asleep englishtips.org 12 Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources just like this boy— shhh! Don’t make a peep! englishtips.org 13 Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources -eep Word Family Riddles Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Listen to the riddle sentences Add the right letter or letters to the -eep sound to finish each one Sometimes at night it is hard to _eep When falling asleep it helps to count _eep It’s fun to drive around in a eep When you honk a horn it makes a loud eep Another word for cry is eep englishtips.org 14 Jack and Jill climbed a hill that was really _eep If it’s time to clean, use a broom to _eep Don’t swim out that far, the water is too eep! These books are not for giving away They are to eep 10 The sound a baby chick makes is a eep Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Now make up some new riddle sentences using - eep englishtips.org 15 Answers: sleep, sheep, Jeep, beep, weep, steep, sweep, deep, keep, 10 peep -eep Cheer Give a great holler, a cheer, a yell Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources For all of the words that we can spell With an E, E, and P that make the sound –eep, You’ll find it in jeep and sheep and sleep Three little letters, that’s all that we need To make a whole family of words to read! - eep englishtips.org 16 Make a list of other –eep words Then use them in the cheer! Reading Tips -eep He re are some quick and fun ways to use this story to help children learn the word family –eep Ask children to find the -eep word ending at the top of the front cover Review aloud with children the sound these three letters make together Can they find two words in the title with the -eep sound? Flip over the book and read the story summary on the back cover Ask children to point out the words they hear with the -eep sound Explain that the story you are about to read includes many more words that end in -eep Can they help you find them? Read aloud the story once for pleasure and enjoy the whimsical illustrations Then reread the book, emphasizing the -eep word ending in the appropriate words Ask children to listen closely and identify all the words that end in -eep (they might raise their hand or clap when they hear one, or you might choose a volunteer to point to the word on the page) As they so, make a list on chart paper of all the -eep words Write each of the words from your list on an unlined index card Use a different color for -eep than the rest of the word Read each word on the cards with children On another reading of the story, distribute the cards to children and have them hold up their card as their word is read Pages 14–15 of the book feature 10 riddles with answers that require a word ending in -eep Read each riddle aloud and have children volunteer answers Read aloud the cheer on page 16 several times, with lots of energy Invite children to join you in reciting the cheer when they feel ready (you might even choose a “cheerleader”) englishtips.org Other words in the -eep family: bleep asleep keep oversleep seep knee-deep Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep (-eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Explain to children that you are going to read a story that has many words with the -eep sound, made by the letters E, E, and P All these words belong to a group called a word family ... that’s steep englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep ( -eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Eight sheep quietly creep englishtips.org Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep ( -eep) ... Resources Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep ( -eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Cheep! Cheep! Nine sheep feeding chickens— englishtips.org 10 Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep ( -eep) ... Don’t make a peep! englishtips.org 13 Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep ( -eep) © Scholastic Teaching Resources -eep Word Family Riddles Word Family Tales: To Sleep, Count Sheep ( -eep) © Scholastic