State and Model the Objective
The children will pretend to try fried and dried foods and read and write words with the -ie vowel combination, such as tried, lied, fried, spied, and dried.
 
Literacy Activities
Fried and dried food

• Tell the children that you spied dried raisins and fried potato chips at the store.
• Ask the children if they like fried potato chips, french fries, or dried fruit.

Tie up and try fries

• Give the children the paper strips to be french fries, a picture of a pie (found below), and a string.
• Let the children pretend to eat the paper fries and paper pie.
• Have the children write fry on each fry.    
• Tell the children that they will tie up fries.
• Let the children tie several fries in a bunch.
• Have the children write tied up fries on the bunch of fries
• Let the children use a string to tie up fries and the pie.   

More Practice
Phonological awareness

• With word-building cards (found below), have the children make new words by changing the beginning constant(s) or ending:
  • Change the beginning consonant(s): fried→ dried, tried→ spied, fries→ pies
  • Change the ending: fry→ fries→ fried, spy→ spies→ spied, try→ tries→ tried

Read target words in texts

• Engage the children in reading the Dried or Fried Food target text (found below) as a class.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Help the children make a list of words with the -ie vowel combination.

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Display a word wall with the words tried, fried, dried, lied, spied, cried, flies, dried, tied, fries, pie, cried, and flied. 
• Have the children write something that uses words from the word wall (e.g., “I tried fries. I tried a pie. I tried a dried grape. A raisin is a dried grape.”).