State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will give use a scrubber to give a dog a bubble bath and they will read and write words with the double letter combination –bb: bubble, scrubber, crabby, shabby.

Literacy Activities
Bubble bath for a grubby dog

• Write the words grubby, shabby, bubbles, scrubber on the board and point out the double letter combination –bb in each word.
• Explain that shabby means messy and grubby means dirty.
• Read the target text Shabby Grubby Dog.
• Allow the children to act out the text using a container filled with water a bubbles and a toy dog or picture of a dog laminated or placed in a plastic bag.
• Place tape on the container and scrubber and have the children label the items by writing bubble bath and scrubber on the tape.

Bubble bath for word cards

• Laminate word cards or place the cards in plastic bags.
• Have the children read the word cards.
• Allow the children to dribble bubbles on the cards and scrub them with the scrubber.

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• With word blending letter cards, help the children make new words by changing the initial consonant(s) or vowel:
  • Change the beginning sound(s): shabby --> crabby; bobble --> wobble; bubble --> rubble
  • Change the vowel sound: bubble --> bobble --> babble; grubby --> grabby; dabble --> dibble

Read target words in a text

• Have the children underline the words with –bb in the target text Shabby Grubby Dog.
• Read the target text Shabby Grubby Dog to the children.
• Engage the children in reading the text simultaneously with you.
• Read the Shabby Grubby Dog text again fading support.

Write about the activity using target words

• Introduce a word wall displaying target words from the lesson (i.e., bubble, scrubber, crabby, shabby, grubby, dribble) and have the children write a sentence or two expressing ideas from a lesson activity or target text using words from the word wall.