State and Model the Objective

• Tell the children that they will make a stack of stickers and read and write short-vowel words that end in ck, such as sack, pack, pick, stick, stack, and block.

Literacy Activities
Read Stick Stickers on Things

• Read the Stick Stickers on Things target text (see below) with the children; support as needed.
• Repeat with Stick a Sticker on Mom or Dad (see below).

Make a stack of stickers

• Have the children make a stack of stickers.
• Make comments such as, “That is a stack of sticky stickers” and “Stack the stickers in a stack.”

Pack the sticker stack in a sack

• Have the children write “pack a sack” on a sack.
• Have the children pack stickers and/or a stack of stickers in a sack.
• Have the children stick one sticker on the sack.
• Make comments such as, “Stick stickers on a sack and pack stickers in a sack” and “Pack a stack of stickers in the sack.”

Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• With word-building cards (see below), have the children make new words by changing a consonant or the vowel.
  • Change the beginning consonant(s): sack→ stack, pack→ sack, block→ lock, luck→ duck
  • Change the vowel: stick→ stack, sack→ sick, pack→ pick, block→ black, luck→ lick

Identify the vowel sounds in rhyme words

• Say words and ask what vowel the children hear in the words (e.g., sack, pack, stack, back, pick, stick).
• Stretch out your arms as you say each word (e.g., “Sack. s aaaa ck. Sack.).
• Have the children identify the sounds in the word and write the word.