Overview
The children will play a game called Snag a Rag while they read and write words ending in –ag, such as: rag, bag, tag, wag, drag. 

Literacy Activities
Race to snag and drag rags

• Place several rags at the end of a running area.
• Place a bag with a tag labeled "Rag Bag" at the other end and have the children read the tag.
• Explain the meaning of the word snag. 
• Tell the children that the rag bag is missing all of its rags and you will time them to see how long it takes to snag and drag all of the rags back into the rag bag.
• Have the children form a line and take turns racing to snag the rags one at a time and drag them to the rag bag.
• Have all of the children chant, “Snag a rag” as each child runs to grab a rag and chant “Drag the rag” as each child drags the rag to the rag bag.

Snag and drag letters to build words

• Make groups of 3 children and give each group a bag with word blending cards Set 1.
• Let the first child snag a letter from the bag and drag it to the –ag ending on the picture of a rag to build a word that rhymes with rag.
• Let the second child blend the sounds together to read the word.
• Let the third child write the word on a piece of paper or on a whiteboard.
• Repeat until each child has had a chance to build, read, and write a word.

A bag that snags rags

• Read the target text A Bag that Snags Rags with the children, then act out the story:
  • Let a child put their hand in a paper sack labeled “rag bag” (moving the bottom of the paper sack like a puppet).
  • Let other children wave rags like flags as the child with the bag tries to snag the rags.
  • Repeat with tags.
  • Let children take turns snagging rags and tags from the rag bag and waving them like flags.

More Practice
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

With word blending cards Set 2, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:

• rag → drag; lag → flag; tag → jag, bag → sag; wag → nag
• rag → ram → rat; tag → tap → tan; bag → bat → bad
• tag → tug; rag → rug → rig; lag → log → leg; bag → big → bug → beg

Read target words in texts

• Read the target text Snag a Rag together with the children. 
• Read the target text again, fading support.
• Have the children underline the words that end in –ag.
• Repeat with the target text A Bag that Snags Rags.

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Play a “pass the rag” game with children (similar to the game hot potato).
  • Have the children sit in a circle and take turns passing a paper rag.
  • As each child gets the tag, 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 rag has to say all of the –ag words on the list.
  • Repeat the game, but this time, have the children write each word on the paper tag.
• Give the children paper and pencil and have them write words from dictation: rag, snag, drag, bag, lag, flag, jag, nag, wag, sag, gag, tag.
• Engage the children in interactive writing about their experience by generating sentence frames and letting the children fill in target words and phrases by picking from options presented verbally or in writing.
  • I can _____ (snag) and_____ (drag) a _____ (rag) to a rag bag.
  • I like to _____ (snag) and_____ (drag) letters to make words on a _____ (rag).
  • The _____ _____ (rag bag) lost all of its _____ (rags).