Overview
The children will use a net to get a pet at a pet store and will read and write words that end in -et such as wet, pet, net, get, let, set, and jet.

Literacy Activities
Get a pet fish at a pet store

• Put up the pet store sign and instructions in one area of the room with toy fish or laminated paper fish in a bowl or tank of water, then set up another area to be "home" with another tank of water.
• Invite the children to the pet store and read them the sign Instructions: How to Get a Pet Fish at a Pet Store.
• Let children take turns catching a wet pet fish, putting it in a bag with water.
• Pretend to carry the pet fish home.
• Put the fish in a container with water at "home," commenting on the need to let the pet fish stay wet.
• Ask the children what words they heard in the activity that end in -et.

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• Let the children make different words (e.g. wet) with letter cards by changing either of the consonants or the vowel. 
  • Change the beginning sound(s): wet → pet, get → set, net → bet
  • Change the vowel sound: get → got, set → sat, bet → bat
  • Change the ending sound(s): let → led, pet → pen, bet → bed

Read target words/patterns introduced in the activity 

• Read the mini book My Wet Pet together as a class/group. 
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children take turns underlining the words that end in -et.
• Repeat with the text Did You Get a Wet Pet? target text below. 

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Play a “pass the pet” game with children while sitting in a circle. 
  • Have the children take turns passing a picture of a fish in a bowl.
  • As each child gets the pet, have them say a new word that ends in -et. 
  • Write each new word on the board.  
  • Repeat the game, but this time, have the children write each word on a piece of paper and tape the word to the fishbowl.
• Give each child a paper and pencil, and have them write words from dictation: pet, get, set, wet, jet, bet, let, yet.