State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will play with nuts and nets and that they will read and write short-vowel words.
 

Literacy Activities
Play with nuts and nets

• Engage the children in reading the A Nut is Not a Net target text (see below).
• Show the children a nut (be careful of potential nut allergies) and a net (from orange or onion packaging).
• Hold up the nut and ask, “Is this a net?”
• Hold up the net and ask, “Is this a nut?”
• Tell the children that a nut is not a net.
• Let the children put a nut on a net and a net on a nut.
• Let the child put a nut in a net.
• Tell the children that a net cannot go in a nut.

Write about the activity

• Let the children label the nut and the net.
• Have the children write target words from dictation (e.g., net, nut, net).
• Help the children write the sentence “A net is not a nut” and "A nut is not a net.”

Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• With word-building cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowels.
  • nut→ net→ not