Overview
The children will help the pup climb up the ladder and they will read and write words ending with -up: up, cup, pup, 7-up. 

Literacy Activities
Pup goes up

• Place the pup on the first rung/step of the ladder/stairs.
• Have children read the word on the step. If the word ends with –up, have children say, “Go up Pup! Get 7-up!” and move the pup up one more step.
• When the pup reaches a non –up word, have children remove it from the step so pup can go up.
• When the pup gets all the way up, have the pup pretend to drink up the 7-up.
• Switch the order of the words on the ladder and repeat, letting different children read the words each time.
• Give children their own cup of 7-up to drink (optional).

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): pup → cup
  • Change the vowel sound: cup → cap; pup → pop; cup → cop 
  • Change the ending sound(s): cup → cut; pup → put

Read target words in a text 

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

Write about the activity using target words and phrases 

• Write one letter or letter blend on each page of a stack of sticky notes (e.g., P, C, S), staple the sticky notes on the left side of a 3x5 index card, and write the -up word ending on the index card to the right of the sticky note to create a flip-book. 
• Have the children say the beginning sound from the sticky note followed by the -up sound from the index card, and then blend the two sounds to read the word.
• Help the children write a simple sentence using the words from the flip-book (e.g., A pup can drink from a cup).