take care of a bear

State and Model the Objective
The children will take care of a bear and give him something to wear and then read and write words spelled with -ear (e.g., bear, wear, pear, tear) and -are (e.g., care, share, spare).
 
Literacy Activities 
Rare for a bear

• Ask the children if bears usually . . . 
  • wear shoes or go barefoot.  
  • wear clothes or go bare.
  • give them a scare.
• Comment that it is rare for a bear to wear clothes.

Help a bear decide what to wear  

• Read the Care for a Bear target text and have the children act out the text.

Share a pear with bear

• Have the children read the sentence strips and answer "yes" or "no." 
• Let the children pretend to share a pear with the bear.  

More Practice 
Read target words in texts

• Read the What Can My Bear Wear? target text to the children.
• Engage the children in reading the target text with you. 
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children make a list of the words spelled with -ear.

Write about the activity using target words

• Let the children write words with the -ear pattern as you say them: bear, tear, wear, pear.
• Let the children write words with the -are pattern as you say them: share, bare, care, dare, spare, square.
• Have the children write about the bear (e.g., “I fixed a tear for a bear. I gave a shirt to a bear to wear.”).