Overview
The children will read and write words ending with -up: pup, cup, yup, and up.

Literacy Activities
Pretend to be a pup

• Before the activity, prepare and set in a safe place 4 small cups of water for use during the second reading of the target text. 
• Read the Up, Pup! target text together as a class, emphasizing words that end in –up. 
• Choose 4 children to pretend to be a pup and wear a pup headband (optional). 
• Read the text again together as a class, following the script instructions (the pretend pups will follow the directions of the other children). 
• The pretend pups can then lap up some water from the cups. 
• Repeat as desired using different children, different water cups, and different tricks.

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds 

• Let the children make a target word (e.g. pup) from letter cards and then let them make different words by changing either of the consonants or the vowel. 
  • Change the beginning sound(s): cup → pup 
  • Change the vowel sound: cup → cap; pup → pop; cup → cop
  • Change the ending sound(s): cup → cut; pup → put
• For each of the words the children make, have them produce the sounds for each letter and then blend those sounds back into the word.

Read target words in a text

• Have the children underline the words that end in -up in the target text Up, Pup!
• Read the Up, Pup! text to the children.
• Engage the children in reading the text simultaneously with you.
• Read the Up, Pup! text again fading support. 

Write about the activity using target words and phrases

• Review the lesson activity, give the children a story starter (e.g., We pretended to be pups and then…), and ask them to write about the activity using their own words. 
• Re-read the target text and permit the children to write their own version of the text.
• Have the children write a sentence or two expressing ideas from a lesson activity or target text (e.g., A pup can jump up and drink from a cup).