State and Model the Objective
The children will read and write words spelled with -oor and -ore, such as door, floor, chore, more, explore, and store.

Literacy Activities
Clean up words and sentences from the floor

• Read the book, Chores, Chores, Chores! by Salina Yoon to the children (optional).
• Read the word cards together with the children.
• Explain that words with -oor and -ore spellings are pronounced the same even though they are spelled differently.
• Lay the word cards on the floor, and tell the children that today’s chore is to clean the floor.
• Have the children pick up the word cards one at a time and read the word on each card.
• Tape the sentence strips to a door.
• Invite the children to take turns dusting the door with a dust cloth or a paper towel until a sentence strip falls off.
• Have each child pick up and read aloud the strip they dusted off the door.

Comment on items needed to do chores

• Show the children the dust cloth, the broom or mop, and the list of things to get at the store in the box or bucket and discuss them as follows:
  • A cloth to wipe a door: wipe a door—that’s a chore, to wipe the door.
  • A broom (or mop) to clean the floor: clean the floor—that’s a chore, to clean the floor.
  • A list of things to get at the store: go to the store—that’s a chore, to go to the store.

Act out a reader's theater

• Act out the reader's theater I Want to Do a Chore with the children as they pretend to do each chore.

More Practice
Read target words in texts

• Engage the children in reading the target text A List of Chores. 
• List words from the text that are spelled with -ore and -oor.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Repeat with the target text Are Chores a Bore? 

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Let the children write words from dictation: chore, more, bore, floor, and door. 
• Have the children write a sentence that uses two of the following words: chore, more, door, floor, or store.