Overview
The children will pretend to dig like a pig as they read and write words that end in –ig such as twig, big, jig, and fig.

Literacy Activities
Dig like a pig 

• Set up a cupcake tin with dirt and picture cards partially covered in the dirt. 
• Give each child a spoon and a wig with a pig snout to wear. 
• Help the children read sentence strips about what they should look for while digging:
  • Dig, pig! Look for a twig!
  • Dig, pig! Look for something used to dig!     
  • Dig, pig! Look for kids dancing a jig!       
  • Dig, pig! Go find a fig! 
  • Dig, pig! Go find a wig!
  • Dig pig! Go find a pig!  
• Let the children wear a wig, dance a jig, and dig like a pig as they search the dirt for pictures of the items named in the sentences.

Dig for –ig words

• Set up the cupcake tin with word cards partly covered in the dirt. 
• Have the children dig to uncover the words.
• Invite the children to read the words as they uncover them. 

More Practice

Make an –ig word flip-book

• Write the –ig ending on the far right side of a 3x5 index card.
• Write the following letters or blends on separate 3x3 sticky notes: D, P, Tw, B, J, F, W. 
• Staple the sticky notes to the index card on the left side of the –ig ending.
• Read each new –ig word as you flip through the initial letters or blends (e.g., dig, pig, twig, big, jig, fig, wig).

Read target words in a text

• Read the text The Pig That Digs and Digs together with the class or small group. 
• Have the children underline the words that end in –ig.
• Read the text again, fading support.