Overview 
The children will make a rag bag while they read and write words ending with –ag, such as, rag, bag, tag, wag, drag. 

Literacy Activities
Make a rag bag

• Display the mini book Rag Bag large enough for the children to see and read the text together as a group.
• Have the children act out the mini book:
  • Get a bag.
  • Label a tag “rag bag."
  • Attach the tag to the bag.
  • Drag a rag into the bag.
  • Snag a flag out of the bag.
  • Wag the flag.

Make an –ag bag

• Make a tag labeled –ag and attach it to a bag.
• Have the children label each picture card by writing the appropriate word under each picture (i.e., rag, tag, bag, wag, flag, zigzag; cat, bat, net, jet, pig, wig). 
• Invite the children to sort the pictures by word families then put the picture cards that end with –ag in the –ag bag.

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
  • rag → brag; tag → lag; bag → wag; sag → nag
  • rag → rap → rat; tag → tab → tad; bag → ban → bam
  • rag → rug → rig; lag → log → leg; bag → big → beg 

Read target words in target texts 

• Read the mini book Rag Bag together with the children. 
• Read the mini book again, fading support.
• Have the children underline the words that end in –ag.
• Repeat with the target text The Rag Bag.

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Have the children write “This is a tag for a rag bag” on a tag.
• Play a “pass the bag” game with children (similar to the game hot potato).
  • Have the children sit in a circle and take turns passing a paper bag while music plays.
  • As each child gets the bag, have him or her say a new word that ends in –ag.
  • Write each new word on the board.
  • When the music stops, the child with the bag has to say all the –ag words in the list.
  • Repeat the game, but this time, have the children write each word on a piece of paper then drop each new word in the bag. 
  • When the music stops, the child with the chip bag has to read all the –ag words in the bag.
• Give the children whiteboards and have them write words from dictation, changing one or two letters each time to make a new word: tag, tug, bug, big, bag, bat, bit, sit, sat, sag, lag, leg, log, jog, jig, jag, rag.
• Engage the children in interactive writing about their experience. Review target words and phrases from the activities then present sentence frame, sentence completion, gestural, or question prompts incorporating target words and phrases. Provide verbal or written options if needed.
• Example of an interactive text:
  • We made a  _____ (rag) _____ (bag).
  • We got a _____ (rag).
  • We got a _____ (bag).
  • We got a _____ (tag).
  • We put the _____ (rag) in the _____ (bag).
  • We put a _____ (tag) on the _____ (bag) that said _____ (rag) _____ (bag).
  • That is how we made a _____ (rag) _____ (bag).
• Examples of sentence completion prompts: 
  • I can make_____ (a rag bag, a tag).
  • I like to _____ (wag a rag) to dust and clean.
  • I put a _____ (rag in a rag bag, tag on a rag bag).