dirt will not hurt the shirt

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.”).