State and Model the Objective

Tell the children they will read and act out a story about race cars.

Literacy Activities

Read Race Day target text together

• Read Race Day (see below) with the children, fading support as appropriate.
• Repeat, having the children circle words that end in -ay and underline words that end in -ace.

Race cars around a track

• Allow children to choose a race car and race it around the race track.
• Read sentences from the text and have the children act them out using the race cars and the track.

Write words that end in -ay and -ace

• Comment that the words with -ay and -ase and -ace all have the long-a vowel.
• Have the children write words that end in -ay and -ace from dictation (e.g., day, gray, stay, race, place, chase) in the appropriate race car on the Race Car Spelling Template (see below).