State the Objective

Tell the children that they will look for a slot in a parking lot and read and write words ending in ot, such as lot, slot, dot, got, hot, and not. 

Literacy Activities

Introduce target words

• Show the children the words: lot, dot, slot, spot, got, hot, and not.
• Read the words with the children.
• Read the Find a Slot in the Lot target text (see below) with the children.

Find a slot in the lot

• Divide the children into groups; give each group a parking lot game board and a die. 
• Give each child a paper car and have them color it. 
• Tell the children to roll the die to see how many spots they can move.
• If a child lands on a slot with a word, they read the word and get a dot. 
• If a child lands on a slot with a dot, the child does not get a dot. 
• Explain to the children that whoever gets five dots first wins the game.

Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

With word-building cards (see below), have the children make new words by changing a consonant or the vowel.

• Change the beginning consonant: lot → dot; got → hot; not → slot
• Change the vowel: lot → lit; hot → hat; not → net
• Change the ending consonant: dot → dog; hot → hop; not → nod

Write about this activity using target words and phrases

Play “pass the parking lot”: 

• Have the children sit in small groups and take turns writing words that end in -ot in the slots on the blank game board (see below). 
• Let the children write sentences using the target pattern (e.g., The lot got hot. The slot had a dot. I got a slot in the lot).