tire on a fire truck
Lesson Plan
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Target Words:
- fire
- tire
- hire
- wire
- dire
Materials:
- Toy fire truck or pictures of a fire truck*
- Play money or pennies
- Word cards*
- Word-building cards with beginning and ending sounds*
- Tire on a Fire Truck target text*
- Hire a Man to Fix a Tire target text*
*Items included below
State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will act out a story about a fire truck with a flat tire and that they will read and write words with -ire, such as tire, fire, hire, and wire.
Literacy Activities
Fix a flat tire on a fire truck
- Read the Tire on a Fire Truck target text (found below) to the children.
- Explain that hire means to pay someone to do something for you.
- Have the children pretend to . . .
- Get a flat tire on the way to the fire.
- Change the tire on the fire truck
- Drive in the fire truck to the fire.
- Put out the fire.
Hire children to clean up -ire words
- Place the word cards (found below) around the room.
- Tell the children that you want to hire them to clean up the word cards.
- Give the children a penny, or play money, and have them gather the cards.
- Help the children read the -ire words on the cards.
More Practice
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds
- With word-building cards (found below), have the children make new words by changing the beginning consonant: tire→ fire; hire→ wire; wire→ dire.
Read target words in texts
- Engage the children in reading the Tire on a Fire Truck target text with you.
- Read the text again, fading support.
- Repeat with the Hire a Man to Fix a Tire target text (found below).
Write about the activity using target words and patterns
- Have the children write words from dictation (e.g., tire, fire, wire, hire).
SEEL Target Texts
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Hired to Fix a Tire
The firefighter’s fire truck had a flat tire.
The firefighters changed the flat tire.
The firefighters put a spare tire on the fire truck.
Now the firefighters will take the flat tire to a tire store.
The firefighters will hire the tire store to fix the flat tire.
If the tire can’t be fixed, the firefighters will buy a new tire.
Tire on a Fire Truck
Fire! Fire!
There’s a fire.
Quick! Get to the fire in a fire truck!
The firefighters go to the fire in the firetruck.
But the fire truck got a flat tire on the way to the fire.
The firefighters change the tire.
With a new tire, the firefighters can get to the fire.
The firefighters can get to the fire and put out the fire.
Standards
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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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Tire on a Fire Truck