State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will scrub a cub in a tub and will read and write words ending with -ub, such as cub, rub, tub, dub, and scrub. 

Literacy Activities 

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Scrub the cub 

• Put mud or dirt on a bear cub or scribble a plastic cub with brown dry-erase or washable marker.
• Introduce the cub named Chub, who needs a scrub in the tub. 
• Teach the Scrub the Cub song (see below) as you scrub the cub.
• Invite children to scrub the cub while singing the first verse of the Scrub the Cub song.
• Let children rub the cub with a towel while everyone sings the second verse.

Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• Let the children make a target word (e.g., cub) from letter cards and then let them make different words by changing either of the consonants or the vowel. 
  • Change the beginning sound: cub → rub; tub → hub; scrub → chub 
  • Change the vowel: cub → cob; rub → rib; cub → cab
  • Change the ending sound: rub → run; cub → cut; hub → hut 

Read target words in a text 

• Have the children underline the words that end in -ub in the Chub the Cub text (see below).
• Have a child hide the cub under the tub.
• Help the children read the target text Chub the Cub.
• Have the children act out the text and find and scrub the cub.
• Read the text together again, fading support. 

Write about the activity using target words and phrases 

• Display target words and give the children a story starter (e.g., “We put Chub in the tub and then . . .”)
• Let them write about how they got to scrub a cub in a tub.