Overview
The children will play a game called Spin to Win! as they add sounds to the –in ending to make new words such as pin, fin, win, and spin.

Literacy Activities
Spin to Win

• Read Biscuit Wins a Prize and use the illustrations to introduce target words (optional)
• Play Spin to Win! 
• Give each child a game board and have them identify the –in pictures on their game boards.
• Have the children take turns spinning the spinner.
• Just before a child spins the spinner, everybody chants, “Spin, spin, spin to win!”
• Have the children say the name of the picture the spinner landed on and cover the picture or word on their game board with a “win” game piece.
• When a child has covered five squares in a row, have that child shout, “I win!” and read the winning words out loud.

More Practice
Clap out sounds in words 

• Have the children take apart the word win and clap once for each sound in the word (/w/ /i/ /n/).
• Ask the children how many times they clapped for the word bin (three).
• Clap for each sound in the word bin again to reinforce the model.
• Repeat with other –in words (e.g., win, pin, bin, fin).

Blend the target words

• Write the –in words from the game on the whiteboard.
• Have children take turns drawing a vertical line between the beginning sound and the –in word ending (e.g., Draw a line between the letter T and the letter I in tin). 
• Erase all of the beginning sounds so just the –in word ending is left and ask the children what is the similar in all of the words.
• Have the children write words from dictation, changing one or two letters each time to make a new word: win, pin, fin, fan, van, man, mat, sat.