State and Model the Objective
The children will pay for hay and then read and write words that end with -ay, such as say, day, bay, may, and gray. 

Literacy Activities 
Pay for hay

• Have the children help you cut the brown paper into thin strips to look like hay.
• Read the May I Pay? target text (found below).
• Invite the children to act out the text with the coins (real or pictures found below) and hay:
  • Pretend to have the children pay to get some hay.
  • Have the children ask, “May I pay?”
  • Let the children exchange money for hay.

Find words in hay

• Bury the -ay word cards (found below) in strips of paper hay.
• Have the children dig through the hay to find the word cards.
• Have the children read the words on the cards.
• Point out that all of the words are spelled with the long a spelled -ay.

More Practice  
Read target texts 

• Engage the children in reading the Bay and Gray—Kinds of Horses target text (found below) with you.
• Have the children make a list of the words that end with -ay.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Engage the children in reading the A Day to Buy Hay Together target text (found below), fading support. 

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Let the children write words from dictation (e.g., hay, stay, clay, day, lay, clay, gray, may, pay, say, way, sway).
• Have the children write about paying for hay (e.g., “I can pay to buy hay. I buy hay in May.”).