State the Objective

Tell the children that they will play a game called "Sit on It" as they hear and say words that end with it, such as pit, it, and quit. 

Literacy Activities

Fill the pit

• Draw a big pit (see example below) and explain that a pit is a big hole.
• Tell the children that they will fit words in a pit. 
• Write a list of words that rhyme with it (e.g., pit, hit, quit, sit, knit, bit, fit).
• Read the words and have the children echo them back.
• Point out that all the words end in it.
• Help the children make two signs: write 'It' on one and 'Pit' on the other. 

Don't sit on it 

• Choose an area to be the pit and label it with the Pit sign.
• Set up chairs in a circle facing out, and put the It sign on a chair.
• Play music or hum, and invite the children to walk around the circle.
• Tell the children to sit in a chair when the music stops.
• As the children walk, chant “Don’t sit, don’t sit on it! Don’t quit until you’re it!”
• When the music stops, have the child in the It chair sit in the pit for a little bit.
• Say, “You fit on the It. It's your turn to sit in the pit for a bit!”
• Remove the chair from the circle, and move the It sign to another chair. 
• Start humming or playing music again and repeat.  

Practice rhyming 

• Remind the children of the words they played with: pit, it, quit, sit, bit.
• Say that you can think of words that rhyme with sit: knit, bit, fit. 
• Help the children think of a word that rhymes with sit:
  
  • "How about pit?" Does pit rhyme with sit?" (Nod your head yes.)
  • "Do quit and sit rhyme?" (Nod your head yes.) 
• Say a pair of -it words (e.g., fit and sit) and have the children clap when they hear a rhyme.
• Repeat with other sets of -it words (e.g., quit-sit; pit-lit; bit-kit; fit-knit; sit-bit). 

Identify written rhyming words 

• Display a list of rhyming -it words: sit, pit, fit, kit, knit, bit, lit.
• As you read the words, point out how they all end in it.
• Have the children touch the -it in each word.