Overview
The children will sing a song called Who Hid the Lid? while they read and write words ending in –id such as hid, lid, kid and rid.

Literacy Activities
Who hid the lid?

• Have all of the children sit in a circle with the container and lid in the center.
• Teach the children the song Who Hid the Lid? to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat and pick one child to leave the room.
• Have one of the remaining children take the lid and hide it in their pocket.
• When the first child rejoins the class, have him or her stand in the middle of the circle.
• Have the class sing the first verse of the song Who Hid the Lid?
• When the song is finished, have the child in the middle guess who is hiding the lid.
• When the child in the middle successfully guesses which child is hiding the lid, sing the 2nd verse of the Who Hid the Lid? song together, (replacing the words who and which kid with the child’s name).
• Repeat the activity, giving additional children a turn to be the guesser and the lid hider. Emphasize the –id ending in the words hid and lid throughout the activity.

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 → rid; did → hid
  • hid → had; lid → led; did → dad
  • kid → kit; lid → lip; did → dim

Write target words

• As a group, create a list of words on the board ending in –id.
• Have each child write a few sentences describing the Who hid the lid? activity. Encourage them to use as many –id words from the board as possible.