Overview
The children will look for a parking slot in a parking lot and read and write words ending with -ot, such as lot, slot, dot, got, hot, and not. 

Literacy Activities
Find a slot in the lot

• Divide the children into groups and give each group a parking lot game board and a number die. 
• Give each child in a group a paper car and have them color their car a different color from the others in the group. 
• Tell the children to roll the die and explain that the number they roll is how many parking spots they can move.
• Have the children move their car to a slot in the parking lot.
• If a child lands on a slot with a word, they read the word, get a dot, and leave their car in that slot. 
• If a child lands on a slot with a dot, the child leaves the car in that slot and does not get a dot. 
• Explain to the children that whoever gets five dots first wins the game.
• Repeat the game as desired.

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds 

• Let the children make different words (e.g. lot, dot, got) from letter cards by changing either of the consonants or the vowel. 
  • Change the beginning sound(s): lot → dot; got → hot; not → slot
  • Change the vowel: lot → lit; hot → hat; not → net
  • Change the ending sound(s): dot → dog; hot → hop; not → now

Read target words in a text

• Have the children underline the words that end in -ot in the A Spot in the Lot target text. 
• Read the text to the children. 
• Engage the children in reading the text with you and then in reading it together again but with faded support. 

Write about this activity using target words and phrases 

• Play “pass the parking lot” with the children: 
  • Create a word wall with words that end in -ot. 
  • Have the children sit in small groups and take turns writing words that end in -ot in the slots on the game board. 
  • Allow the children to write sentences about a car in a lot that use -ot words, such as spot, got, not and hot (e.g., “The car in the lot got hot.”).