zoom around the room

State and Model the Objective
The children will pretend to zoom around a room as they read and write words with the long oo vowel, such as bloom, zoom, broom, and vroom. 

Literacy Activities
Make a paper broom and write words on the broom

• Let the children draw a broom or cut out the paper broom (found below).
• Have the children write words on the broom, such as zoom, room, and broom.
• Ask the children to write the sentence, “Zoom around a room on a broom” on the back or handle of the broom.  

Go places on a broom

• Tell the children that they need brooms (pretend or paper).
• Have the children make room to zoom on brooms.
• Let the children pretend to zoom around the room on a broom (i.e., gallop in place).

Zoom around in a car that goes vroom

• Tell the children to make room as they get in an imaginary car. 
• Let the children make the vroom sound as they pretend to zoom around the room (i.e., sway back and forth or lean from side to side as they “turn corners”).
• Have the children make -oom racing sounds (e.g., zoom, vroom) as they pretend to be imaginary cars zooming around the room.

Let cars zoom around the room 

• Let the children cut out the picture of a car (found below) or use a toy car to pretend to zoom around the room. 
• Make more racing sounds as the cars zoom around the room.
• Pretend to let a few cars crash and make crashing sounds (e.g., kaboom, boom, sha-boom).

More Practice
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• With word-building cards (found below), have the children make new words by changing either the beginning or the ending consonant(s):
• Change the beginning consonant(s): boom→ zoom, room→ loom, vroom→ broom
• Change the ending consonant: room→ roof, boom→ boot, loom→ loop

Read target words and patterns introduced in texts

• Read the target text Zoom and Boom (found below) together.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children underline the words that end in -oom.

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Have the children write words from dictation (e.g., zoom, vroom, room, broom, boom, bloom, gloom, doom).
• Display the words with the long oo vowel for the children to see.
• Have the children complete sentences, like the examples below, using words from the word wall: 
  • A race car goes ____(zoom, vroom).
  • I like to ____(zoom) around the ____(room) on a ____(broom).
  • I hear a car crash! It goes ____(boom).