State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will spend a cent to rent a tent and that they will read and write words that end in /nt/, such as tent, rent, and sent.  

Literacy Activities
Set up a tent with a vent

• Tell the children that a friend named Kent sent a tent and exclaim, "A tent! Kent sent a tent. I present you with the tent!"
• Present the tent (sheet with a slit to be a vent) labeled "From: Kent."
• Help the children set up the tent and point out the vent or vents. 
• Explain that a vent is an opening that lets air come in and out.
• Show the word cards (found below) to the children and read them together.
• Let the children pretend to be Kent and put the words that end in /nt/ through the vent in the tent.

Rent time in a tent for a cent

• Read the Rent a Tent sign with the children.
• Explain that rent means to pay money to be able to use something.
• Tell the children that they will pay one cent to rent time in the tent and read the words that Kent sent through the vent.
• Pass out pennies and let the children take turns renting the tent and reading an -nt word that Kent sent through the vent.
• Make comments such as the following:
  • Bend down to get into the tent.
  • You went in the tent!
  • You got to rent the tent for a cent.
  • You spent a cent to rent the tent.

Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• With word blending cards (found below), have the children make new words by changing the vowel or the beginning consonant:
  • tent --> cent; bent --> dent; rent --> went; sent --> vent; cent --> spent
  • tent --> tint; rent --> rant --> runt

Read target words in a text

• Read the target text A Cent to Rent a Tent (found below) with the children.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children underline the words that end in –nt.

Write about the activity using target words/patterns.

• Have the children write words from dictation: tent, rent, cent, sent, vent, spent, went, bent, dent.
• Ask the children to write about renting a tent (e.g., "I spent a cent to..." (rent a tent, send a note through the vent)).
• Engage the children in interactive writing about their experience. 
  • Kent _____ (sent) a box with a _____ (tent).
  • We _____ (sent) words through a _____ (vent) in the _____ (tent).
  • We got to _____ (rent) the _____ (tent) for a _____ (cent).
  • We spent            (a cent) to               (rent the tent).
  • We got to read the words that              (Kent) sent through the             (vent).
  • I spent a cent to... (rent a tent, read a word from Kent).
  • We bent down... (to get in the tent).