State and Model the Objective
The children will park cars and then read and write words with​
-ar​, such as​ barn​,​ star​, arm,​ ​and​ smart.

Literacy Activities
Put -ar words in parking spaces

• Make a parking lot with masking tape or chalk (example below) that has spaces that can fit -ar word cards.
• Place the Park sign (found below) by the parking lot.
• Place one set (eight words) of -ar words (found below) in a jar.
• Let the children pick words from the jar, read the words, and place them in parking spaces. 

Park cars on -ar words in a parking lot

• Place the second set of -ar words in the jar and let the children pick words out.
• Let the children park the cars (toys or pictures found below) in the parking space that matches the word that they picked.
• Ask the children to explain where they parked (e.g., “I parked on the word star.”). 
• Place stars to mark some parking spaces and have the children read the words marked by stars.

Follow directions that deal with cars, stars, and marks

• Using the picture of the parking lot, have the children follow the directions on the sentence strips (found below).

Park at a snack bar

• Read the I Park My Car target text (found below) with the children.
• Pretend to drive a car to a snack bar, a park, and a farm and park in a backyard or a parking lot.  
• Show the children that the word backyard is made up of the back and yard.

More Practice
Read target words in texts

• Engage the children in reading the I Park My Car target text with you.
• Have the children make a list of the words spelled with -ar.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Repeat with the Start the Race at the Starting Mark target text (found below). 

Write about the activity using target words

• Let the children write words from dictation (e.g., car, jar, start, farm, barn, park, star, barn, dart, far, card, hard, arm, smart).
• Display the -ar words and have children incorporate them into sentences about how they got to park and drive cars (e.g., “I can drive to the park. I parked the car far away.”).