Kindergarten Decode Hop to a Popcorn Shop

Objective

Working with -op Words:

The children will hop to shops and pop popcorn

Target Words: pop, shop, stop, hop, top, drop

Target Words:

pop, shop, stop, hop, top, drop

Materials:

Literacy Activities
Hop to a Popcorn Shop

Give the children popcorn kernels in a cup that they cover with a top (their hand).
Have the children hop from shop to shop, looking for a place to pop their popcorn.
When they reach the Popcorn Shop, have the children drop their kernels into a popcorn popper and hop as they hear the kernels pop.
Fill the children’s cups with popcorn until they say, “Stop!” then have them put the top back on and hop back to eat their popcorn.

Read the Hop to a Popcorn Shop target text

More Practice
Make Popcorn Words

Have the children make -op words using the letter cards and then write the words on the Popcorn Word page.

Practice -op on the Hideout: Early Reading app

Have children use the Hideout: Early Reading app on an iPad to pop virtual popcorn and read and build -op words.

Objective
Read and write words that end with -op.

Materials

Activity: Hop and pop popcorn

Put a few kernels of popcorn in a cup and hop with your child to a pretend popcorn shop (the kitchen) to pretend to pop popcorn.
Drop kernels in a pot and make them hop (or pop popcorn for real).
Hop and say pop with your child as the kernels pop and hop.
Help your child make -op words with the word building cards and write them on the Popcorn Words sheet.
Hop and pop like popcorn as you take turns saying -op words, such as hop, pop, drop, and stop.

Popcorn squares

SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

http://education.byu.edu/seel/library/