State and Model the Objective
The children will wipe stripes off pipes and read and write long-i-silent-e words, such as gripe, pipe, ripe, swipe, wipe, stripe.
 
Literacy Activities
Place a pipe on stripes

• Have the children make stripes of different colors on a piece of paper.
• Show a pipe and let the children place or draw stripes on the pipe.
• Let the children make stripes on pipes using markers.
• Have the children wipe the stripes off the pipe with a swipe.
• Comment that there are not enough pipes or wipes or markers.
• Alert the children that they should not gripe if they have to wait to put stripes on a pipe or wipe stripes off a pipe.

Draw pipes with stripes

• Have the children draw pictures of pipes with stripes.
• See if the stripes will wipe off the pipe.
• Comment on how the stripes won’t wipe off paper but will wipe off a whiteboard.
• Ask the children if they have a gripe about drawing pipes on paper or a white board.
• Show the children the -ipe word cards and let them tape the words to pipes.
• Let the children write -ipe words on paper pipes.

More Practice
Word building

• With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
  • pipe → wipe; swipe → stripe; ripe → gripe
  • pipe → pine; stripe → stride
  • ripe → rope; gripe → grape

Read target words in texts

• Engage the children in reading the Put Stripes on a Pipe target text as a class or a group.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children make a list of the long-i-silent-e words from the text.

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Let the children write about what they did with stripes and pipes, and include these words: pipe, stripe, wipe, gripe, swipe.