State the Objective

Tell the children that they 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 the children sit in a circle with the container and lid in the center.
• Teach the children the lyrics of the "Who Hid the Lid?" target text to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
• Pick one child to leave the room.
• Have another child hide the lid in their pocket.
• Have the first child rejoin the group and stand in the middle of the circle.
• Sing the first verse of the song "Who Hid the Lid?"
• Have the child in the middle guess who hid the lid.
• Sing the second verse of the song, filling in the blanks with the name of the child who hid the lid.  
• Repeat as desired.

Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• Let the children use the word-building cards to make new words by changing either the consonant(s) or the vowel:
  • kid → lid, bid → rid, did → hid
  • hid → had, lid → led, did → dad
  • kid → kit, lid → lip, did → dim
• Have the children use the word-building cards as a model to practice writing the target words.