Overview 
The children will find the rag doll in a rag bag, and that they will read and write words ending in –ag: rag, bag, tag, wag, drag. 

Literacy Activities
Find a rag doll in a rag bag

• Make a rag doll (pick one of two options): 
  • Make a rag doll by tracing the rag doll pattern onto a scrap of cloth and drawing on a face.
  • Make a rag doll by using a scrap of cloth and rubber bands to tie off a head, arms, and legs.
• Put the rag doll in a bag.
• Read the target text Rag Doll in a Rag Bag to the children then reread the text, acting out the story:
  • Make rags for the rag bag by tearing scraps of cloth into strips.
  • Write “rag bag” on a tag and attach it to the bag.
  • Put rags in the rag bag.
  • Let the rag doll pop out of the rag bag.
  • Write “rag doll” on a tag for the rag doll.
  • Let the rag doll play with the rags in the rag bag.

Play Rag Doll Tag game (similar to Duck, Duck, Goose)

• Have the children sit in a circle, choose one child to be the tagger and give him/her a rag doll.
• Have the tagger walk around the circle, gently tapping each child on the shoulder and waiting for that child to read their -ag word aloud.
• When a child reads the word rag, the tagger drops the rag doll behind that child and starts running around the circle.
• The child picks up the rag doll and chases the tagger around the circle, trying to tag him/her before he/she sits down in the open seat.
• Invite the children in the circle to pass their word card 3 times to their right, let the new child be the tagger with the rag doll, and repeat the game.
• Play as many rounds of the game as desired.

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:
  • rag → tag, wag → lag, bag → sag, drag → flag, tag → snag
  • drag → drab, tag → tab, rag → ran, bag → bat
  • rag → rug, jag → jog, bag → big, lag → leg 

Read target words in texts

• Read the target text Rag Doll in a Rag Bag together as a class/group. 
• Read the target text again fading support.
• Have the children underline the words that end in –ag.

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Give the children whiteboards and have them write words from dictation, changing one or two letters each time to make a new word: rag, rug, tug, tub, tab, tag, wag, wig, win, bin, big, beg, bag, sag, sad, lad, lag, leg, log, dog, dot, jot, jog. 
• Engage the children in interactive writing about their experience.
  • Review target words and phrases from the activities, then present sentence completion prompts incorporating those words and phrases (provide support as needed).
• Examples of sentence completion prompts: 
  • I made a _____ (tag) for a _____ (rag) _____ (bag).
  • I like to make rags for a _____ (rag) _____ (bag).
  • I saw a rag doll in the _____ (rag) _____ (bag).
  • I played _____ (tag) with the _____ (rag) doll.