Overview
The children will play a game called Hot or Not Hot as they add sounds to the –ot ending to make words such as hot, not, lot, and spot.

Literacy Activities
Hot or Not Hot

• Show the children the robot graphic.
• Have one child leave the room while another child hides the robot.
• Bring the child back in the room to search for the robot.
  • Have the rest of the children say “hot” if the child gets close to the robot or “not hot” if the child is far away from the robot. 
• When the child finds the robot, give him or her a sticker or graphic dot as a reward.
• Repeat the game and allow different children to hide and find the robot. 

More Practice
Cut words into sounds

• Cut each word blending card into its separate sounds, and say each sound separately.
• Have the children use the parts of the word blending cards to create -ot words. 

Write about the activity using target words

• Have the children write words from dictation, changing one letter each time to create a new word: dot, not, hot, hit, hat, sat, mat, man, pan.
• Help the children write short instructions for how to play the Hot or Not Hot game using the -ot words they created with the word blending cards (e.g., Spot a robot; Get a dot.).
• Ask children to find a partner and have them say their instructions to each other.