State and model the objective
The children will win a prize for fries and will read and write words with the long i spellings -ize, -ise and -ies: rise, wise, prize, size, flies, tries, fries.
Literacy activities
Try some French fries

• Give the children big and little paper fries or have them cut out big and little rectangles to be fries (found below).
• Instruct the children to find the biggest fry.
• Give the children a pretend prize for having a big fry.
• Have the children write "A prize for a big sized fry."

See flies on fries

• Attach pictures of flies (found below) to strings and put the flies on fries.
• Comment on seeing flies on fries.
• Give the children boxes of fries (found below) or have them fold paper to make a box, envelope or pack for fries.
• Have the children write Big Size Fries on the fry box or pack.
• Have the children shoo away the flies and watch them rise up and leave the fries.
• Comment that it's not wise to let flies be on fries. 

Make words with -ies, -ise or -ize

• Have the children read the word cards (found below).
• Let the children sort the word cards according to the spelling pattern: -ies, -ize, -ise.

Phonological awareness

• With letter cards (found below), have the children make new words by changing the beginning consonant(s):
  fries → tries; flies → spies; prize → size; rise → wise
  Have the children change words spelled with -y to the plural -ies:
  fry → fries; spy → spies; try → tries; sky → skies

Read target words in texts

• Engage the children in reading the target text He Spies Flies on His Fries (found below).
• Have the children make a list of the words spelled with -ize, -ise and -ies.
• Repeat with the target text Prize for Fries (found below).

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Display the list of words with -ise, -ize and -ies (e.g., rise, wise, prize, size, flies, tries, fries).
• Have the children write sentences about prizes for big sized fries and flies on fries (e.g., "I won a prize because of the size of my fries").