State and Model the Objective
The children will be playing with fireflies as they read and write words that end in -ight, such as bright, light, night, and sight.
 
Literacy Activities
Fireflies at night

• Divide the children into two groups. 
• Give the children of one group a picture of a firefly (found below) and the children of the other group a flashlight.
• Have one child hold up a firefly and have another child shine the flashlight on the firefly.
• Have the child holding the flashlight turn it on and off and explain that the bright firefly's light blinks on and off.
• Pass out the pictures of fireflies and have the children spread out around the room.
• Tell them to hold up their fireflies and stand very still.
• Turn out some or all of the lights and explain that fireflies shine at night.
• Give one child the flashlight to shine on the fireflies.
• Let the children take turns shining the flashlight on the fireflies and comment on how fireflies make the night bright with all their lights.

More Practice 
Read target words in a text

• Engage the children in a shared reading of the Fireflies target text (found below).
• Let the children read the text with faded support.
• Shine the light on words that end in -ight and have the children read them.
• Repeat with the Firefly Poem (found below).

Write target words

• Have the children write words that end with -ight. 
• Shine the flashlight on each child's written words.
• Have the children read their -ight words when the light is right on their words.