State and Model the Objective
The children will help a cow take a bow, and will read and write words with -ow, such as cow, bow, how, now, and wow.
Literacy Activities
Help a cow take a bow

• Give pairs or groups of children a paper cow.
• Have the children bend the cow to let the cow take a bow.
• Have the children make a sign that says, “Bow now, Cow!”
• Let the children take turns telling a cow how to bow and to bow now. 
• Exclaim, “Wow! The cow can bow.” 
• Let the cow teach the children how to bow.

Give a cow some chow

• Tell the children that the cow needs some chow (food).
• Show the children a picture of a plow and tractor (found below).
• Explain that a plow and tractor dig in order to plant seeds for grass (chow for cows).
• Have the children pretend to plow and let the green grass (paper) pop up.
• Have the children label the grass as chow and let the brown cow chow down on the chow.

Read target words in texts

• Engage the children in reading the How Do You Bow, Cow? target text (found below).
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children take turns underlining the -ow combinations in the text.
• Act out the text with some children being the cows and some learning how to bow.

Write about the activity using target words

• Have the children write words from dictation: now, how, cow, bow, wow, plow, chow, brown, clown, and down.
• Let the children write about what they did with the cow (e.g., "My cow can take a bow," "Wow! How can a cow bow?" "I tell the cow to take a bow, now").
• Let the children draw a brown cow and then write about the cow (e.g., "The brown cow can take a bow," "The brown cow likes to eat chow").