Overview
The children will zip and clip and that they will read and write words ending in –ip such as zip, clip, snip, rip, flip, skip, and trip. 

Literacy Activities
Zip a real zipper up and down

• Have the children grip a real zipper and zip it up and down 
• Write zip and unzip on the board or on a large piece of paper.
• Point to zip to have children zip the zipper up or to unzip to have them zip the zipper down.

Try to zip a zipper that can’t zip

• Let children grip the broken zipper and then try to zip the zipper.
• Comment on how the zipper can’t zip up or down.
• Put a clip on the zipper to keep it closed.

Zip, snip, clip and rip paper zippers

• Pass out the paper zippers and ask the children if the paper zippers can zip.
• Have the children write zip on each zipper graphic.
• Let the children snip, clip, or rip the paper zipper to zip it down (or to unzip the zipper).

Fix the rip in the paper zipper

• Ask the children if they can zip up the zipper that they just snipped or ripped.
• Let the children grip a clip and use the clip to clip the paper zipper together.
• Have the children grip the clip as they pretend to zip the zipper up.

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• With word blending letter cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or the beginning consonant(s):
  • Change the beginning sound(s): clip → snip, zip → rip, lip → slip, dip → hip
  • Change the middle sound: rip → rap, flip → flop, nip → nap
  • Change the ending sound: dip → did; sip → sit; rip → rib

Read target words in a text

• Read the target text Zip and Rip a Paper Zipper together as a group. 
• Have the children underline the words that end in –ip.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Repeat with the texts Zip a Zipper Up and Down and Some Zippers Can Zip (optional).

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Give each child a paper and pencil and have the children write words from dictation: zip, sip, rip, dip, snip.