State and Model the Objective
The children will make a choice to boil or broil vegetables and will read and write words containing the
-oi pattern, such as boil, broil, foil, spoil, soil, and choice.

Literacy Activities
Pull vegetables from the soil before they spoil

• Place the pictures of the vegetables (found below) in a pretend garden.
• Tell the children that they will pull vegetables to use from the soil so that they don’t spoil. 
• Pretend to wash soil off the vegetables.
  Have the children write the words soil and spoil and emphasize that they both have the -oi vowel combination.

Make a choice to boil or broil vegetables

• Write choice on the board and point out that the word choice has the -oi vowel pattern.
• Explain that the -ce spelling at the end of choice makes the /s/ sound.
• Invite the children to make a choice to boil or broil the vegetables that came from the soil. The children will either . . .
  • Write boil and say, “My choice is to boil”.
  • Write broil and say, “My choice is to broil.”

More Practice 
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• With word-building cards (found below), have the children make new words by changing either the beginning or ending consonant(s):
  • Change the beginning consonant(s): soil→ spoil; boil→ broil; foil→ coil
  • Change the ending consonant: coil→ coin

Read target words in texts 

• Read the Make a Choice to Boil or Broil target text (found below) to the children.
• Engage the children in reading the target text with you. 
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Ask the children to listen for -oi words as you read the text together.
• Have the children make a list of the words with the -oi vowel pattern in the text.

Write about the activity using target words

• Pass out a word card (found below) to each child.
• Invite them to write a sentence using the target word on the word card (help as needed). 
• Have the children take turns sharing their sentences