State and Model the Objective
Tell the children they will buy a lime drink with a dime, and read and write words with the long i silent e vowel (e.g., line, dime).
Literacy Activities
Give a dime for a lime drink

• Make a lime drink or pretend to make a lime drink.
• Let the children stir or pretend to stir the drink until they hear a chime. 
• Strike a metal object and say, “I hear the chime.”
• Tell the children that they can buy a slice of lime or lime drink with a dime.
• Ring the chime every time a child buys a lime or lime drink with a dime.

Phonological awareness

• Have the children make words by changing either of the consonants:
  • line→ lime, pile→ pine, dine→ dime, slime→ lime, time→ lime, like→ bike, size→ side, wide→ hide, mine→ mice, dice→ dime

Read target words 

• Read the target text Get in Line for a Lime with the children.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children find the words with long i and silent e.

Write about the activity 

• Display a word wall with words, such as lime, dime, dine, chime, ice, mice, nice, rice, kite, dice, bike, spice, price, slice, smile, five, slime, fine, time, line, pile
• Have the children write about standing in line to buy things with dimes:
  • "If I had a pile of dimes, I would…"
  • "I would use a dime and stand in line to…"
  • "For a dime, I would dine on…"
  • "A dime is a nice price for…"