Slide and Glide a Lid

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Objective

Read words that contrast long i and short i vowels and turn short i words into long i words.

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Lesson Plan

Target Words:

lid
rid
kid
slid
ride
slide
glide

Materials:

Lids
A slanted board or book
A grid drawn on paper with the words kid, slid, slide, glide, ride, rid, skid, lid, hid, hide, side, stride*
Things to Do With Lids target text*
Things We Did With Lids target text*

*Items included below.

State and Model the Objective
The children will slide lids and read long i and short i words: slid vs. slide; hid vs. hide; rid vs. ride.
Literacy Activities

Illustrate ways to act on lids using the slanted board or book:
- hide a lid
- slide a lid
- slide a lid from side to side
- get rid of a lid
- slide a lid from kid to kid
Have students read and act out the text Things to Do With Lids (found below).

Read and write about sliding lids

Engage the students in shared reading about lids in the text Things We Did With Lids (found below).
Show a list of short and long-vowel words: rid, ride, lid, glide, slid, slide, side, stride, hid, hide, did, skid, wide.
Let the students write about the things they did with lids.
Have the children make changes in words, for example:
- Rid → ride
- Ride → rid
- Grid → rid
- Skid → kid
- Kit → kite
- Lid → glide
- Slid → lid
- Slide → side
- Hid → hide
- Grid → ride
- Slid → slide
- Did → wide
- Glide → grid
- Stride → ride
- Stride → rid
- Wide → ride

Things to Do With Lids

Hide the lid and get rid of it
Slide the lid from side to side
Tap the lid and let it slide to the side
Let the lid slide and glide down a slide
Let the lid slip and slide down a slide
Let a lid skid from kid to kid
Take wide strides to get from lid to lid
Stride from side to side with the lid
Take wide strides from lid to lid
Take wide strides from kid to kid
Let a lid go on a ride down a slide
Let a small lid take a ride on the big lid
See if a lid will glide down a slide
Get rid of the lids that don’t glide
Take a lid for a ride
Slide a lid onto words on a grid: kid, slid, slide, rid, ride, slip, lid, slid, rid, ride

Things We Did With Lids

We got to hide a lid and get rid of the lid.
We got to slide a lid down a slide.
We got to glide a lid down a slide.
We got to slide a lid to a spot on a grid.
We got to slide a lid from side to side.
We got to take wide strides from lid to lid.
We got to take wide strides from kid to kid.
We got to slide a lid from kid to kid.
We did a lot of things with lids.