Overview 
The children will pretend to be pigs with wigs doing a jig as they read and create words, such as wig, pig, jig, big, and dig.  

Literacy Activities
Make a big wig for a pig

• Involve the children in making pig wigs (see the instructions below).
• Help the children write -ig words on the pieces of the wig.

Sing or chant the Pig Wig Jig song

• Teach the children the Pig Wig Jig chant (see below).
• Have a child stand in the middle of a circle as the pig in a big wig. 
• Choose a second child to walk around the circle while the class chants the first verse of the Pig Wig Jig.
• Permit the second child to join the pig in the middle and do a jig together as the class sings or chants the second verse.
• Allow other children to be pigs doing jigs in the circle.

More Practice
Read target words in a text 

• Read the Pig Wig Jig target text together as a class. 
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children help you make a list of all of the -ig words in the text.
• Involve the children in blending the sounds to make words:
  • Initial consonant and rime ending as in /p/ + /ig/ = pig
  • Individual phonemes as in /p/ + /i/ + /g/  = pig

Clap out sounds in words 

• Have the children clap once for each sound in the word pig (/p/ /i/ /g/).
• Ask the children how many sounds they hear in the word pig.
• Clap for each sound in other words: jig, wig, dig, big, fig, and rig.