a pretend ship trip
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- ship
- trip
- skip
- tip
- drip
- flip
Materials:
- Sheep on a Ship by Nancy E. Shaw (optional)
- Ship (desks moved together in the shape of a ship)
- Box and rolled paper
- A Ship Trip target text
- A Pretend Ship Trip target text
- Word Cards
- Word blending cards
Overview
The children will make a ship and go on a trip while they read and write words ending in –ip such as ship, trip, dip, flip, and slip.
Literacy Activities
Ship Trip
- As a group, move desks into the shape of a ship, and create a mast using a box and rolled paper.
- Have the children skip to the ship.
- Teach the children the A Ship Trip target text.
- Pretend to be sailors, taking a trip on the ship.
- Pretend to dip, tip, and flip the ship as you journey across the sea.
- Sing the A Ship Trip song often on your trip.
Apply the skill
Read the book Sheep on a Ship by Nancy E. Shaw (optional).
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds
- With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing either of the consonants or the vowel:
- ship → trip; drip → flip; dip → tip
- tip → top; trip → trap; drip → drop
- dip → dim; tip → tin; ship → shin
Read target words in a text
- Give out a copy of A Pretend Ship Trip target text to each child.
- Read the text together as a group.
- Read again, fading support.
- Have the children identify and underline the words on a copy of the text.
SEEL Target Texts
A Ship Trip
A Pretend Ship Trip
SEEL At Home
Objective
Read and write words ending in -ip.
Materials
- Word Cards
Activity: Ship Trip
- Talk to your child about how fun it would be to take a trip on a ship.
- Go to the couch, the table, or anywhere that you can sit down, and pretend you are on a ship. Take turns choosing an action word card, reading it, and then doing that action like you are on a ship.
- As you perform the action, say what you are doing out loud (e.g.; We tip on the ship!).
- After you take your pretend ship trip, write a short story together about the trip. Use as many words as possible that end with -ip.
- Read the story together with your child. Support where needed. Ensure that your child can read each word that ends with -ip.
- The activity can be repeated several times.
Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B: Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.D: Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)

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A Pretend Ship Trip