State the Objective
Tell the children that they will hop to a shop and buy soda pop as they read and write words ending in -op, such as hop, pop, shop, and drop.

Literacy Activities
Hop to the pop shop

• Display the shop signs (see below) in different areas and assign a child to be the shopkeeper at each shop. 
• Let children hop to the shops and ask, “Do you sell pop?” 
• Have shopkeepers who do not have pop say, “This is a __ (mop, top, or popcorn) shop. No pop in this shop.” 
• Have the shopkeeper at the pop shop say, “This shop sells pop!” and have the children pretend to buy the pop. 
• Let the children take turns hopping back with the pop. 
• As the children hop with the pop, make comments such as:
  • “Hop, hop, hop away from the pop shop.”
  • “Don’t stop! Just hop and hop and hop.”
  • “Don’t drop the pop! Hop, hop, hop with the pop!”
• Have the children stop, pop off the top, let the pop go pop (over the tray), and exclaim:
  • “The pop went pop!”
  • “Mop, mop, mop up the pop!”
  • “Mop up all the drops of pop.” 
  • “Stop! No more drops of pop.” 
  • “No more drops of pop to mop up.”
• Have the children “mop” up the pop with the rag.

Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• Have the children use word blending cards (see below) to make new –op words.
  • hop → mop, top → pop, plop → drop, stop → shop, shop → flop
  • hop → hot, top → tot, pop → pot, shop → shot

Read -op words

• Help the children read the Hop to the Pop Shop target text (see below).
• Have the children find the words that end in -op.

Write about the activity using -op words

• Have the children fill in the blanks with -op words:
  • We wanted to shop for __ (pop).
  • But the ___ (shop) did not have ____(pop).
  • The ___ (shop) did not have ____(pop).
  • The ___ (shop) did not have ____(pop).
  • We hopped to a ___ (shop) that had ___ (pop).
  • We got to____ (hop) back with the ____ (pop).
  • We got to ___ (pop) off the ____ (top) of the ____ (pop).
  • The pop can went _____ (pop)!
  • We had to ___ (mop) up the drops of ____ (pop).