Overview
While a clock goes “tick tock,” the children will pick up, stack, and pack objects that end in –ock, –ick, and –ack: clock, sock, tick, stick, pack, and sack.

Literacy Activities
Pick up

• Read the book Tick Tock, Clock and have the children listen for words that end with –ick and –ock (optional).
• Invite the children to shadow read along as you read the Tick Tock Goes the Clock text aloud. 
• Scatter the pictures of objects ending with -ock, -ick, and -ack around the floor.
• Start the timer/hit the sticks together and have the children try to pick up the objects before the timer dings.

Stack and pack

• Help the children read the word on each picture card.
• Mix up the picture cards and tell the children they will sort the cards into stacks according to the ending sound (e.g., place rocks, socks, and blocks together in a stack; place sticks and bricks together in a stack).
• Start the timer/hit the sticks together again and allow the children to stack the pictures. 
• Have the children pack the stacks into corresponding sacks labeled –ock, –ick, and –ack.

More Practice
Read target words in a text

• Read the text Stack and Pack together with the group. 
• Have the children underline the words that end with –ock, circle the words that end with –ick, and draw a box around the words that end with –ack.
• Read the text again fading support.
• Repeat with the text Tick Tock Goes the Clock.

Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• With letter cards, help the children make new words by changing the vowel in each word:
  • tick → tock; stick → stack
  • sack → sock; pack → pick
  • lock → lick; block → black
• For each of the words the children make, have them produce the sounds for each letter and then blend those sounds back into the word.
• Have the children identify the vowel sound in each word.

Write the target words

• Create a word wall of words from the activities that end with –ock, –ick, and –ack (i.e., clock, sock, rock, tick, stick, brick, stack, pack, sack).
• Have the children write words from the word wall on sticky notes or small pieces of paper.
• Have the children mix, sort, and stack their papers into piles according to the word ending.
• Have the children complete sentence completion prompts using words that end with –ock, –ick, and –ack. (e.g. I like to ___ (stack) and ___ (pack) socks; I can pack a ___ (rock) in a ___ (sack).