State and Model the Objective
The children will use a pretend crank to open a bank and then read and write words that end in -nk, such as crank, bank, thank, clink, clank, and think.
 
Literacy Activities
Make a bank

• Make a slit large enough for coins in the plastic lid of the tin can.
• Let a child write the word bank on a piece of paper before taping it onto the tin can.

Put money in the bank to make it go clank

• Put a coin in the bank and rattle it while saying “clink” and “clank.”
• Allow the children to have a turn plunking money in the bank while saying “clink” and “clank.”
• Read the Clank in the Bank target text and emphasize words with the /nk/ blend. 

Open a bank with a crank

• Pretend to lift off the lid of the tin-can bank by using a hand-sanitizer bottle with a pump.
• Place the hand sanitizer next to the tin bank and twist the pump top to act as a crank. 
• Dump the coins out of the tin bank once the lid is off and let the coins clunk or plunk when they hit the table.
• Make comments such as the following:
  • “Crank. Crank. Crank the bank.”
  • “Yank the crank to open the bank.”

More Practice
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds 

• With word-building cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or the beginning consonant(s):
  • Change the vowel: clink→ clank→ clunk; plunk→ plink→ plank; sink→ sunk; think→ thank
  • Change the beginning consonant(s): clank→ blank; bank→ sank; crank→ yank; clink→ plink; plunk→ clunk

Read and identify the target words 

• Read the Bank with a Crank target text to the children.
• Engage the children in reading the target text with you.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children make a list of the -nk words that they heard.

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Have the children write words as you say them: crank, bank, thank, think, sink, plink, plunk, and clunk.
• Invited the children to write about their experience. 
• Review target words from the activities and present sentences to complete or question-prompts to elicit ideas.
  • Example of an interactive text:
    • We got to ___ (plunk) and ___ (clunk) money into a bank.
    • We heard money ___ (clink), ___ (clank), and ___ (clunk) in the bank.
    • We opened the ___ (bank) with a ___ (crank).