State and Model the Objective 
Tell the children that they will make trash crash as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with trash, such as crash, bash, clash, and smash.

Literacy Activities

• Spread the trash (aluminum pie tins) around the activity area.
• Give each child a plastic grocery bag, and ask them to gather up the trash and put it in their bag.
• Encourage the children to say, "Crash, clash, bash!” as the trash crashes in their trash bags.
• Once all the trash is stashed in bags, lead the children in the following:
  • Smash the trash up high.
  • Let the trash crash down low.
  • Bash the trash fast.
  • Smash the trash slow.
  • Clash their trash against a neighbor’s trash.
• Encourage the children to say words that rhyme with trash, such as smash, crash, and bash as they smash the trash together.

More Practice
Recognize target words in a text

• Display the Clash the Trash target text (see below) large enough for children to see.
• Encourage the children to smash and crash their trash each time they hear a word that rhymes with trash (support as needed).

Review the rhyme words

• Remind the children of the words they have heard that rhyme with trash (e.g., smash, bash, clash).
• Say the words again, and allow the children to smash their trash together as they say the rhyming words back to you.
• Ask the children to think of a word that rhymes with trash to say out loud (support as needed).
• Allow the other children to repeat back the word as they smash their trash.