State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will pretend to eat snacks and play with sticks and rocks on a dock and will read and write words ending with -ck, such as snack, sack, dock, rock, stick, and duck.

Literacy Activities
Play with rocks and sticks on the dock

• Write the words dock, rock, and stick on the board and explain that c and k written together make the /k/ sound. 
• Lay a large towel on the floor as a pretend dock and put rocks and sticks on it (use real objects or see pictures below).
• Invite the children to sit on the dock and stack rocks and sticks. 

Eat snacks on the dock

• Have the children pack pretend snacks (see below) in a paper sack.
• Let the children sit on the dock and eat the snacks from the sack.
• Help the children label the pictures dock, rock, stick, and snack and underline the -ck at the end of each word.

Put in sacks

• Label three paper sacks -ick, -ack, and -ock.
• Have the children take turns reading a word card (see below) and putting it in the sack with the matching word ending.
• Let the children use a -ck wordlist to write words like snack, sack, dock, rock, and stick on slips of paper and put them in their sacks.
• Ask the children to trade sacks and read the words on the cards in the sack.

Read target words in a text

• Read the Snacks on a Dock target text (see below) to the children. 
• Engage the children in reading the text simultaneously with you, fading support.
• Have the children list the words from the text spelled with -ck.

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Have the children use the -ck wordlist to write about stacking rocks and sticks and eating snacks on the dock  (e.g., “I had a snack in a sack.” “I sat on the dock and had my snack.” “A duck got my snack.”).