dirt will not hurt the shirt
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- dirt
- hurt
- shirt
- skirt
- spurt
- squirt
Materials:
- Squirt bottle
- Dirt
- Container
- Shirt and skirt graphic
- Word cards
- Spurt Water on a Dirty Skirt target text
- A Shirt and Skirt with Dirt target text
Overview
The children will squirt a shirt to get rid of dirt and then read and write words with the /er/ sound such as squirt, spurt, dirt, shirt, and skirt.
Literacy Activities
Squirt dirt off -ir and -ur words
- Place the word cards in a plastic sheet-protector and lay them flat in a container.
- Sprinkle the word cards with a little dirt.
- Allow the children to use a spray bottle to squirt the dirt off the words
- Have the children read the words
Clean dirt from a shirt and skirt
- Place the shirt and skirt graphics in a plastic sheet-protector and lay them flat in a container.
- Cover the graphics with dirt.
- Let the children squirt and spurt water on the shirt and skirt to get rid of the dirt.
- Have the children draw outlines of a shirt and skirt and write dirt, shirt, skirt, squirt, spurt, and hurt in their outlines.
- Ask the children to write the sentence “Dirt won't hurt the shirt or skirt.”
More Practice
Read the target text and words
- Read the Spurt Water on a Dirty Skirt target text to the children.
- Engage the children in reading the target text with you.
- Have the children highlight words spelled with -ir or -ur.
- Read the text again, fading support.
- Repeat with the A Shirt and Skirt with Dirt target text.
Write about the activity using target words/patterns
Let the children write about what they did (e.g., “There was a shirt and skirt. There was dirt on the shirt. I got to squirt the dirt off the shirt and skirt.”).
SEEL Target Texts
A Shirt and Skirt with Dirt
A shirt with dirt!
There’s dirt on this shirt.
Will the dirt hurt the shirt?
No! Just squirt the dirt off the shirt
It will be a shirt without dirt!
A skirt!
A skirt with dirt!
There’s dirt on the skirt.
Will the dirt hurt the shirt?
No! Just squirt the dirt off the skirt.
You will have a skirt without dirt!
Spurt Water on a Dirty Skirt
There's some dirt on the skirt.
Let a spurt of water get the dirt off the skirt.
Squirt the dirt off the skirt.
With a little squirt, you can have a skirt without dirt!
There's a shirt.
There's some dirt on the shirt.
Let a spurt of water get the dirt off the shirt.
Squirt the dirt off the shirt.
With a little squirt, the shirt will be without dirt!
Standards
1. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.B: Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
2. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.C: Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

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Dirt Will Not Hurt the Shirt