State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will take a doll up a ski slope and will read and write words that end with the long o ending -ope, such as rope, slope, mope, hope, cope, and nope.
 
Literacy Activities
Ski down a slope

• Set a piece of cardboard or paper at a slope to make a ski slope.
• Put popsicle stick skis on the feet of the skier cutout (found below).
• Have a child help the paper doll hold the rope.
• Let another child pull the rope to pull the doll up the slope.
• Let the doll ski down the slope.

Make a slope and grope for a rope  

• Have the children make the two signs Slope and Nope, not a slope on pieces of paper.
• Hold a piece of paper at a slope and then not at a slope (flat).
• Let the children hold up the sign that matches what you do with the paper.
• Have the children write a sign saying Grope for a rope from dictation.
• Let the children grope for (feel around for) a piece of the string, yarn or rope.

More Practice 
Read about skiing down a slope

• Read A Rope on the Ski Slope text (found below) with the children.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Repeat with I Mope if I Can’t Go to the Slopes (found below).

Write about a ski slope

• As a class, make a list of words that end in -ope.
• Have the children write about what they hope to do when they go to a ski slope.
• Ask the children to use some -ope words from the list as they write.