Overview
The children will make sad, mad, and glad faces as they add sounds to the -ad ending to make words such as bad, glad, mad, sad, and dad. 

Literacy Activities
Make sad, mad, and glad faces 

• Read the story Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel and use the illustrations to introduce target words (optional).
• Have children practice making a sad, mad, and glad face (explain that glad means happy). 
• Invite the children to share things that make them glad, sad, and mad. 

Read Bad Kitty

• Read the target text Bad Kitty and have the children make glad, sad, and mad faces to match the words in the text. 
• Read the story again and when the words bad, sad, mad, or glad appear in the story, only say the first sound and have the children finish the word.

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• Have the children blend individual sounds into words by tapping their head (beginning sound) and their toes (-ad sound) and then clap to say the whole word.  
  • b + ad = bad
  • s + ad = sad
  • m + ad = mad
• With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
  • Change the beginning sound: bad → sad; sad → mad; mad → glad
  • Change the ending sound: bad → bat; sad → sat; mad → man
  • Change the middle sound: bad → bed; sad → sod; mad → mud