Literacy Activities
Hop to a Popcorn Shop

• Give the children popcorn kernels in a cup that they cover with a top (their hand).
• Have the children hop from shop to shop, looking for a place to pop their popcorn.
• When they reach the Popcorn Shop, have the children drop their kernels into a popcorn popper and hop as they hear the kernels pop.
• Fill the children’s cups with popcorn until they say, “Stop!” then have them put the top back on and hop back to eat their popcorn.

Read the Hop to a Popcorn Shop target text

• Read the Hop to the Popcorn Shop target text to and with the children.
• Let the children take turns underlining the -op words in the text.
• Have the children hop when they hear an -op word.

More Practice
Make Popcorn Words

• Have the children make -op words using the letter cards and then write the words on the Popcorn Word page.

Practice -op on the Hideout: Early Reading app 

• Have children use the Hideout: Early Reading app on an iPad to pop virtual popcorn and read and build -op words.