State and Model the Objective

Tell the children that they will flip dough and rip strips of toppings to make a pizza and will read and write words ending in -ip, such as tip, rip, strip, flip, and snip.
 

Literacy Activities

Flip dough and drip sauce to make a pizza

• Have children flip tan paper circles like pizza dough
• Let the children . . . . .
  • Rip, snip or clip packets of red paint or ketchup 
  • Tip and drip the sauce into a bowl
  • Whip the sauce with or without a little water 
  • Drip the sauce on the ‘dough’ or let snips of red paper be sauce
  • Rip and snip strips of cheese and toppings onto a plate
  • Rip, snip, or clip strips of green, orange, or red paper to be pepper
  • Rip, snip, or clip yellow or orange paper to be cheese.
  • Slip the strips of toppings from a plate onto the pizza.

Rip strips of pizza

• Snip or rip the pizza into strips. 
• Slip strips of pizza onto a plate.

Read about making pizza 

• Have the children help make a list of the -ip words and read the list together.
• Read the Drip Sauce and Rip Strips Pizza Recipe (see below) with the children.

Blend and Manipulate Words

• With word-building cards, have the children make new words by changing a beginning or ending consonant(s) or the vowel:  
  • Change the beginning consonant(s): strip→ trip; dip→ drip; lip→ flip; rip→ trip; strip→ rip.
  • Change the vowel: tip→ top; trip→ trap; drip→ drop; snip→ snap.
  • Change the ending consonant(s): dip→ dim; tip→ tin; trip→ trim.

Read and write about how to rip, tip, drip, whip, snip and clip to make a pizza  

• Read the Make Pizza text (see below) with the children.
• Display a word wall with -ip words.
• Have the children write about someone making a pizza as they rip, drip, tip, and whip sauce; flip dough; and snip and clip strips of pepper and cheese.