State and model the objective

Tell the children that they will make an icky, yucky soup and will read and write words that end in the long e vowel -y, such as quickly, shiny, penny, prickly, frizzy, tiny, dirty, many, and sticky.

Literacy Activities
Icky soup

• Read Stone Soup by Marcia Brown or Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel (optional).
• Read the word cards (see below) with the children and point out that the long e words end in -y.
• Place the items or picture cards (see below) in the covered pot.
• Let the children pull out the items from the pot one at a time.
• Have the children choose a word card to go with each item (e.g., shiny penny, fuzzy yarn, dusty key, dirty rock, tiny spider, sticky candy).
• Have the children put the items and word cards back in the pot to make a crazy, yucky soup.

Read target words in texts

• Read the target text Icky Crazy Soup (see below) to the children.
• Have the children underline the words that end with -y in the text.
• Read the text again to the children.
• Engage the children in reading the text with you.
• Read the text again, fading support.

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Display -y words on a word wall (e.g., shiny, fuzzy, dusty, dirty, tiny, sticky, prickly, penny, candy, icky, goopy, frizzy, messy, jelly, shrimpy, yummy, slimy, grimy, kitty, fluffy). 
• Let the children write about putting crazy things in a soup (e.g., “We put fuzzy yarn in a crazy soup”).
• Have the children rewrite the text using words from the word wall.