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Bug Hug
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Target text

Objective

Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with -ug to make words such as bug, jug, mug, and rug.
 

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Lesson Plan

Target Words:

  • bug 
  • hug
  • rug
  • snug
  • mug
  • jug
  • tug

Materials:

  • Mug, jug, and rug images*
  • Picture cards*
  • Word-blending cards*
  • Word-building cards*
  • Meet My Bug target text*
  • Book: Hug a Bug by Eileen Spinelli (optional)

*Items included below.

State the Objective

Tell the children that they will look for bugs to hug and add sounds to the ug ending to make words such as rug, jug, bug, hug and mug.  

Literacy Activities

Introduce target words

Read the target words with the children: bug, hug, rug, snug, mug, jug, tug.

Hide a bug

  • Read Hug a Bug by Eileen Spinelli (optional). 
  • Let the children take turns hiding and finding bug images (see below) under -ug objects (see below).
  • Chant, "Bug, bug, bug. Where are you, bug?" together as the children look for bugs.
  • Have the children say, "I found a bug! Bug hug!" as they find the hidden bugs and then give the bugs a big hug.

Read and write -ug words

  • Using the word-blending cards (see below), hold up a beginning consonant with the -ug ending and ask the children to read the word. 
  • Continue to switch the beginning consonants.
  • Have the children write a sentence using each word.

Identify, blend and manipulate sounds, and write target words

  • With word-building cards (see below), have the children make new words by changing a consonant or the vowel.
    • Change the beginning consonant: tug → bug, bug → rug, rug → dug, dug → slug
    • Change the vowel:  bug → big, bug → bag, rug → rag, dug → dog
    • Change the ending consonant: bug → bud, tug → tub, mug → mud
  • Let the children write words from dictation, changing one or two letters each time to make a new word.
    • mug → bug → bud → bid → big → dig → dug → dog → fog 
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SEEL Target Texts

Meet My Bug

Do you want to meet my bug?
If you do, say, “Hi, bug!”
This is my bug.
Do you want to give my bug a hug?
If you do, say, “Hug bug!”
Hug my bug.
Do you want to make my bug snug?
If you do, say, “Snug bug!”
Do you want to make my bug snug in the mug? 
No!
Do you want to make my bug snug in the jug? 
No!
Do you want to make my bug snug on the rug? 
Yes!
Put my bug on the rug.
Let my bug get snug.
Now, give my bug on the rug a hug.
What a cute little snug bug!
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Objective
Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with -ug to make words such as bug, jug, mug, and rug.
 
Materials

  • Bug Image
  • Rug Image

Activity: Hug a Bug

  • Cut out the bug graphics and hide them around a room in your house.
  • Pretend that the room is a forest full of lost bugs that need hugs.
  • Have your child look for each bug, and whenever he or she finds a lost bug, shout together, “Hug a bug!” and give the bug a hug.
  • Have your child put each bug he or she finds on the snug rug.
  • After finding all the bugs, say a beginning consonant sound and have your child tell you what the -ug word would be for that sound (e.g., “/b/” “Bug!”). 
  • Continue to do this for different -ug words.
  • Have your child write each -ug word on the back of each bug picture.
 

Rug and Bug Graphics

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Standards

SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

http://education.byu.edu/seel/library/