Overview
The children will pick a stick and act like a chick as they add sounds to the -ick ending to make words such as chick, stick, and pick. 

Literacy Activities
Pick a stick

• Attach the -ick picture cards to craft sticks
• With the children, go through each of the -ick picture cards and decide how they can act out each card.
• One-by-one, have the children pick a stick one-by-one while everyone chants, "Pick a stick! Pick a stick!"
• Let the children perform the action that goes with the -ick picture on the stick that was drawn.
• Repeat until every child has had a turn to pick a stick.

Pass the stick

• Have the children sit in a circle and take turns passing a craft stick labeled with -ick.
• As the children get the stick, have them place a letter card in front of the -ick ending on the stick then have them blend the sounds together to read the word.
• Write each new word on the board: lick, chick, kick, sick, wick, pick, quick, stick.  

More Practice
Read target words in a text 

• Read the Pick the Stick target text together as a class/group. 
• Read the text again fading support.
• Have the children underline the words that end in -ick.

Segment -ick words into their sounds and blend sounds into words 

• Have the children march to each sound in the word pick.
  • Produce the sound /p/ (march right), produce /i/ (march left), produce /k/ (march right)
  • Bring both feet together as you blend the sounds to say "pick!" 
• Repeat with other -ick words: lick, chick, kick, sick, wick

Write about the activity using target words

• Give each child a paper and pencil and have the children write words from dictation
  • lick → click → pick → pack → pan →  tan → tack → tick → lick.