Get a Wet Pet

Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- wet
- pet
- net
- get
- let
- set
- jet
Materials:
- Toy fish or laminated fish graphics
- Nets (e.g., the netting used to package onions)
- Two bowls or tanks of water
- Plastic bags with water for the fish
- Picture of a fish in a fish bowl
- Pet store sign
- Tape
- Instructions: How to Get a Pet Fish at the Pet Store sign
- Letter cards
- Did You Get a Wet Pet? target text
- Wet Pet mini book
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.
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SEEL Target Texts
Did you Get a Wet Pet?
Did you get a pet at a pet store?
Did you get a pet fish?
Did you get your pet in a net?
Did you move the pet from the net to a tank?
Did you keep your pet wet?
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Standards
SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

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Get a Wet Pet