Overview
The children will look around for a hound that needs to be found and then read and write words that end in -ound, such as found, round, ground, hound, sound, bound, mound, and pound.

Literacy Activities
Look around for a hound

• Place the Dog Pound sign (found below) on a chair with the toy dog or the picture of a dog (also found below) near it. 
• Place the cut out, round shapes (found below) on the ground leading to the Dog Pound sign.
• Explain that when a dog, sometimes called a hound, is found, the dog often gets taken to the pound.
• Let the children follow the round shapes that lead to the hound in the pound.
• Say, “Don’t make a sound as we listen for the hound.” 
• Make a barking sound and say, “We must be close to the pound.” 
• When the children get to the dog pound, say “We found the hound at the pound!”

Get the hound from the pound

• Take the dog from the pound and let the dog run round and round.
• Put the dog on a leash and comment on how the dog gets all wound up.
• Make the dog go round and round in the other direction so that it will not get wound up.
• Follow the round shapes on the ground until the hound gets to the Home for a Hound sign (found below) on a mound of blanket on the ground.   
• Say, “We were bound to get home by following the round shapes found on the ground.”

More Practice 
Read and write target words 

• Engage the children in reading the A Hound Found in the Pound target text (found below) with you.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children write -ound words from dictation.

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Provide oral or written sentence frames for the children to complete: 
  • The ____ (hound) was not ____(found)  on the ____(mound) of blankets on the ____(ground).
  • We _____(found) some ____(round) shapes on the ____(ground).
  • We followed the ____(round) shapes on the ____(ground) to the ____(pound).
  • We ____(found) our ____(hound) in the ____(pound).
  • We took our ____(hound) back to his ____(mound).