State and Model the Objective
The children will pretend to make a cake and read and write words with the long-a-silent-e pattern, such as make, cake, bake, shake, take, and wake.

Literacy Activities
Bake a Cake

• Hide a picture of a cake or a bit of real cake in a pretend oven (e.g., a box or cupboard).
• Write the words make, bake, take, and cake on the board and point out the long-a-silent-e pattern.
• Set out utensils and ingredients to pretend to make a cake, or set out pictures.
• Have the children shake in ingredients (real or pretend) as they take turns making the cake:
  • Say, “Shake, shake” as children repeatedly shake in bits of flour, sugar, or water.
  • Say, “Make, make the cake” as children repeatedly take turns mixing.
  • Pour or “shake” the batter into a cake pan.
  • Put the cake pan into the “oven” and say, “Cake, bake!”
  • Say, “Ding!  The cake is baked.”
  • Say, “Take cake” as you take the real cake or picture out of the oven.
  • Say, “Shake, shake on flakes” if adding flakes to the cake.
  • Offer bits of the real, pretend, or pictured cake to the children and say, “Take cake!”
• Help the children make a list of the words used throughout the activity that end with -ake (i.e., make, bake, cake, shake, take).

Bake -ake words

• Have the children read the -ake word cards and place the cards in the mixing bowl.
• Let the children write words ending in -ake to add to the bowl.
• Allow the children to mix the -ake words as they pretend to make a “cake” out of words and “bake” the word cake in the pretend oven.

Read target words in a text

• Engage the children in reading the Bake a Cake target text simultaneously with you.
• Read the text again, but fade support.

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Refer the children to target words displayed on a word wall (e.g., bake, cake, make, shake, take) and display other useful words such as flour, sugar, egg, salt, and water.
• Ask the children to write a sentence or two related to what they did to make and bake a cake.