Overview
The children will play a game with a squid as they read and write words ending in –id such as kid, squid, lid, and rid.

Literacy Activities
Kid with a Squid

• Give each child a picture of a squid.
• Read one of the sentences written on the board and have everybody pretend to do the action as they hold their squid; repeat several times.
• Choose a child to choose one of the actions to perform for the class, then ask the children, “What did the kid do with the squid?”.
• Have the other children guess which –id action the child did. 
• When they have guessed correctly, have everyone call out, “Get rid of the squid!” and have him or her place their picture of the squid in a container under the lid.
• Repeat until all children have had a turn and returned their squid to the container under the lid.

More Practice
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing either of the consonants or the vowel:
  • kid → lid; bid → squid; did → hid
  • hid → had; lid → led; did → dad
  • kid → kit; lid → lip; did → dim

Read target words

• Review the actions the children did with the squid. 
• Read the sentences displayed on the board and have the children raise their hand each time they hear an –id word.
• Read the sentences together, having the children read the words ending in –id.

Write about the activity using target words

• Display target words on a word wall.
• Engage the students in writing a sentence or two expressing ideas from the lesson activity.