What Hid Under the Lid

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Objective

Read and write words ending in –id.

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Lesson Plan

Target Words:

hid
lid
kid
squid

Materials:

A container and lid that the children cannot see through
Picture Cards
What Hid Under the Lid? song
Word blending cards

Overview
The children twill learn a song called What Hid Under the Lid? as they read and write words ending in –id such as kid, rid, lid, and bid.

Literacy Activities

Teach the children the first verse of the song What Hid Under the Lid? sung to the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel
Open the lid just enough for a child to reach in and take a picture/word card without seeing it.
Have the child show the class and then have the class respond, “A _____ hid under the lid!”
Teach the children the second verse of the song.
Repeat until you have pulled out all of the picture/word cards.

More Practice
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing either of the consonants or the vowel:
- kid → lid; bid → rid; did → hid
- hid → had; lid → led; did → dad
- kid → kit; lid → lip; did → dim

Read target words in a text

Display the words to the What Hid Under the Lid? song on the board so that all of the children can see.
Read the song together as a group.
Read again, fading support.
Allow one child at a time to come up and underline an –id word from the text.
Repeat until all –id words are underlined.

Write about the activity using target words

Display target words on a word wall.
Re-read the What Hid Under the Lid? target text and permit the children to write their own version of the text.
Encourage the students to use as many different -id words as possible in their writing.

What Hid Under the Lid?

First Verse:
What hid under the lid?
Under the lid, what hid?
What hid under the lid?
Pop open the lid!

Second Verse:
A *kid hid under the lid
Under the lid, a *kid hid
A *kid hid under the lid
Under the lid, a *kid hid.

*Replace with the name of the picture pulled from the container.

(Sung to the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel: https://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/pop-goes-the-weasel)

-id Picture Word Cards

Word Blending Cards

SEEL At Home

Objective

Read words ending in -id.

Materials

Picture Cards
What Hid Under the Lid? song
Container with a lid (place pictures inside)
2 pieces of paper (fold and staple folded edges to resemble a book)

Activity: What Hid Under the Lid?

Sing the first verse of the song What Hid Under the Lid?.
Open the lid and pull out a picture to see what hid there.
After seeing what hid under the lid, sing the second verse of the song.
Repeat for all pictures inside the container.
Help your child make a book titled What Hid Under the Lid?. Help your child write the sentence, "A ____ hid under the lid" on each page, filling in the blank with something he or she found under the lid.
Have your child illustrate each page.
Have your child read the book to you.
The activity can be repeated several times.

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