Overview
The children will hear a story about how to follow a plan to make a fan as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with fan, such as can, man, ran, and plan.

Literacy Activities
Plan to Make a Fan

• Ask the children to listen for words that rhyme with fan as you read the Plan to Make a Fan target text aloud.
• Read the instruction part of the text to the children again, demonstrating how to make a fan.
• Guide the children through the steps as they make their own fans (support as needed).
• Read the whole text again, inviting the children to act it out with you.

Fan the Man

• Make sure each child has a fan and a picture of a man.
• Tell the children to put the picture of a man in front of them.
• Have the children fan the picture and say, "Fan man, fan man!"
• Give the children different variations on how to fan (e.g., fan the man fast, slow, high, low). 

More Practice
Read a target text

• Display the target text Plan to Make a Fan large enough for children to easily see.
• Read the text to the children, pointing to each word in left to right sequence.
• Ask the children to join in repeating predictable phrases while you read the text again. 
• Ask the children which words in the text rhyme with fan.

Produce words that rhyme with fan

• Remind the children of the words they played with (fan, man, plan).
• Ask each child to think of a word that rhymes with fan. 

Recognize rhyming words

• Have the children repeat a set of two words (e.g., fan, man).
• Ask the children to show you thumbs u pif the words rhyme and thumbs down if the words do not rhyme (support as needed).
• Repeat with other sets of words (e.g., can, Dan; ban, pan; ran, cow; plan, tan; van, star).