the bug and the jug

The Bug and the Jug

The Bug and the Jug
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Target text

Objective

Blend a consonant with –ug to make words such as bug, jug, and mug.

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Lesson Plan

Target Words:

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

Materials:

  • The Bug and the Jug  target text*
  • Jug or jug image* 
  • Name tags* 
  • Word-building cards* 
  • Billy the Bug’s New Jug by Wendy Cheyette Lewison (optional)

     

     

    *Items included below.

State the Objective 
Tell the children that they will read a funny story about bugs that tug a jug as they practice blending beginning sounds with the –ug ending to make words such as bug, tug, jug, and hug.

 

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Literacy Activities
Introduce target words
Read the target words with the children: bug, jug, tug, mug, hug, and rug.


Act out The Bug and the Jug story 

  • Divide the children into three groups: red bugs, slugs, and water bugs.
  • Give each child a name tag (see below) that corresponds with their group

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  • Read The Bug and the Jug story (see below), letting each group of children lug the jug (see below) across a rug at the appropriate part in the story.
  • Have the children give a hand hug (shake hands) every time they hear an –ug 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: bugdug; ruglug; tugjug

     

    -Change the vowel: jugjog; dugdog; bugbag; rugrig

     

    -Change the ending consonant: bugbud; rugrun; hughut

  • Let the children write words from dictation, changing one or two letters each time to make a new word
    - bugrugdugdigbigbagbadmadradrodrot

Read, write, and blend target words

  • Have the children help write a list of words ending in ug
  • Read the words in the –ug list together. 
  • Randomly say words from the list while having the children write the letter that matches the beginning sound of each word (e.g., you say rug, then the children write the letter R).
  • Say the beginning sound of an -ug word and let the children guess which –ug word you were thinking of (e.g., You say /j/, then the children call out jug).
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SEEL Target Texts

Bugs in a Jug for Sale

I see a big bug.
I see a fat bug.
I see a red bug.
What can we do with all those bugs?
We can sell those bugs!
Get the bugs in a box.
Oh no! The big bug got out.
Oh no! The fat bug got out.
Oh no! The red bug got out.
A jug is best for keeping bugs.
Get the bugs in a jug.
The bugs look snug in the jug.
I see the kids. 
“We are selling bugs!
Do you want to buy a bug?
Do you want a bug to hug?” 
“Bugs? Yuck!”
The kids do not like to hug bugs!
We cannot sell our bugs.
Let the bugs go.  
Get out, bugs!
Maybe next time we can sell mud.

The Bug and Jug Story

There were once some red bugs that lived on a rug. They were so snug on their rug. Sometimes they liked to dig. They dug and dug and dug near their rug and put everything they found on their rug. There was one thing that the red bugs were missing on their nice snug rug. They were missing something that ends with -ug and begins with the letter j. They were missing a jug.
 
So they dug and dug and dug far away from their rug until they found a gigantic jug. Those red bugs had to try to tug and lug the big heavy jug and bring it back to their rug. The jug was so heavy they could not tug it by themselves. The red bugs needed help from the slugs to tug the heavy jug back to the rug.
 
The slugs and the red bugs tried to tug and lug the jug, but the jug was still too heavy. However, there was one really smart red bug. He looked at the heavy jug and he saw that it had a plug. The very smart bug pulled out the plug. The water rushed out of the jug and made a sound: glug, glug, glug! 
 
There were some water bugs that came glugging out of the jug with the water. The red bugs and slugs and the water bugs tugged the jug back to the rug.
 
Then each bug found a spot on the snug rug and had a drink of cocoa from a mug. They had a party and did a dance called the jitterbug. Then they all got snug and went to sleep on the rug. 
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Objective 
Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with –ug words to make words such as bug, jug, and mug.

Materials

  • The Bug and the Jug story
  • Letters cards 

Activity: The Bug and the Jug

  • Read The Bug and the Jug, and have your child use the puppets to act it out.
  • Make up a new puppet show about the red bug, the slug, and the water bug, using -ug words.
  • Play, "What word am I thinking?" 
    • Give a clue for an -ug word (e.g., "I don't like to drink cocoa from a cup, I like to use a ___."
    • Have your child guess the word and spell it with the letters.
    • Repeat with other words.
    • Swap roles if desired.
  • Help your child write a short story about the -ug characters using some of the -ug words.
  • Activity can be repeated several times.bug-and-jug-story-and-letter-cards
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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/