Overview
The children will work in a chip factory and then read and write words that end in -ip such as chip, snip, clip, strip, rip, and ship.

Literacy Activities

• Explain to the children that they will pretend to be workers in an assembly line in a chip factory.
• Divide the children into five groups and have each group do the work for one step in the assembly process using chip graphics and/or real chips (e.g., chocolate chips, potato chips).
  • Step 1: Make the chip bag 
    • Have the children in this group cut out the chip bag pattern, fold it according to the instructions, and use paper clips to keep the bottom of the bag together.
    • Let the children write the words "chip bag" on the back of the bag. 
  • Step 2: Make the chips
    • This group will use scissors to snip and clip strips of chip graphics.
    • This group could also rip strips of scrap paper into triangles to make tortilla chips (optional).  
  • Step 3: Sort the chips
    • Let this group set up the chip signs on a table and sort the various chip graphics or real chip into piles next to the appropriate signs.
  • Step 4: Fill a chip bag and clip it shut
    • Show this group of children how to put each type of chips into its own chip bag; pretend to tip over one of the chip bags and lose some chips.
    • Fold down the top of the bag and clip it shut with a chip clip. 
    • Tip and flip the chip bag over to show that the chips will not fall out when the clip is on the bag.
    • Let each of the children pick some chips to put in a bag and get ready to ship.
  • Step 5: Ship off the chips
    • Explain that the word ship means to deliver and have this group of children put the chip bags in a box or a larger bag to ship them off to a store.
    • Have one of the children pretend to be the person who ships (delivers) the chips to a store. 
      • Tell the person who is shipping the chips to skip with the chips.
      • Tell the person who is shipping the chips to not trip or slip with the chips.
• When the work is finished, put real chips in one of the chip bags that the children made.
• Open the chip bag and tip it so the chips slip out into a bowl.
• Give each of the children a chip to hold to their lips before they eat it, pointing out that chips and lips both end with -ip.

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• With the word-building cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
  • Change the beginning consonants: chip→ ship; rip→ lip; grip→ trip; clip→ flip
  • Change the vowel: flip→ flop; ship → shop; tip → tap; strip→ strap
  • Change the ending consonant: chip→ chin; rip→ rig; tip→ tin

Write target words and follow patterns

• Give each child a whiteboard and have them write words from dictation, changing one or two letters each time to make a new word: chip, clip, flip, flop, slop, slip, snip, ship, shop, snip, shin, pin, pit, lit, lip, rip, trip, strip. 

Read target words in a text 

• Read the A Chip Factory target text .
• Engage the children in reading the target text with you.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children underline the words that end in -ip.
• Repeat with the We Ship Chips to Chip Stores! target text.

 
Read and write target words

• Play a Hot Chip Bag game with children (similar to the Hot Potato game).
• Have the children sit in a circle and each write a word that ends with -ip on a slip of paper.
• Turn on some music and let the children take turns passing a chip bag until you stop the music.
• When the music stops, the child holding the chip bag gets to read their word aloud and put it in the chip bag.
• Repeat the game until everyone's slip is in the chip bag, then show the children the slips and read the words aloud together.

Write about the activity using target words

• Give each child a paper and pencil and let them write words from dictation: chip, snip, clip, grip, flip, rip, ship, skip, trip, slip, and tip. 
• Have the children write a sentence or two about the activity using as many words from their list as they can (e.g., “I snip and clip chips. I skip but do not slip or trip with the chips.”).