State and Model the Objective
The children will meet a pirate named Clark and then read and write words spelled with -ar, such as car, star, candy bar, card, scarf, spark, and shark.

Literacy Activities
Make Clark say “Arr!”     

• Show the children the picture of Clark the Pirate (found below).
• Help the children read the sentence strips (found below). 
• Make Clark say "Arr!" in different situations:
  • There’s a shark! Clark says “ARR!”
  • There's a bright star. Clark says “ARR!”
  • Clark is far away from the X that marks the spot! Clark says “ARR!”
  • Clark sees a spark. Clark says “ARR!”
  • Clark doesn’t hit a target with a dart! Clark says “ARR!”
  • Clark marks the course on the chart. Clark says “ARR!”

Put words with -ar in a treasure chest

• Choose a child to leave the room while you hide one of the word cards in the room.
• Have the child search for the card while the other children help by saying “Far” or “Not far.”
• Have the children read the other words on the cards in Clark's treasure chest.

More Practice 
Read target words in texts

• Engage the children in reading the Clark Says “Arr!” target text (found below) with you.
• Read the text again, fading support.

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Let the children write words from dictation (e.g., car, star, card, scarf, spark, shark, farm, arm, barn, yarn, chart, dart, mark, far).