Pup Goes Up

Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- up
- cup
- pup
- 7-up
Materials:
- Toy pup or picture of a pup
- Ladder/stairs (real or drawn on board)
- A cup labeled “7-up” (at the top of the ladder/stairs)
- Word cards (one taped to each rung/step of the ladder/stairs)
- 7-up soda (optional)
- Small cups (optional)
- Letter cards
- Sticky notes
- 3x5 index card
- Up Pup! target text
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).
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SEEL Target Texts
Up, Pup!
Up, pup!
The pup can go up.
Up, up, up,
To get a 7-up.
The pup can go up.
Up, up, up,
To get a 7-up.
Up, pup!
Climb up for a cup.
Read a word
That ends in -up.
Climb up for a cup.
Read a word
That ends in -up.
Up pup!
Up, up, up,
Go up to drink the 7-up.
Good pup!
Up, up, up,
Go up to drink the 7-up.
Good pup!
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Objective
Read and write words that end with -up.
Materials
- Toy pup or picture of a pup
- Ladder/stairs
- A cup labeled "7-up" (at the top of the ladder/stairs)
- Small cups filled with 7-up, 1 for each child (optional)
- Word cards (one taped to each rung/step of the ladder/stairs)
Activity: Pup Goes Up
- Explain that the pup really likes 7-up and needs to go up the stairs to get the cup of 7-up you left there.
- Have your child move Pup up one step. Help him or her read the word that is attached to the step.
- If the word ends with -up, have your child say "Pup, go up for the cup of 7-up!" and move Pup up another step. If the word does not end with -up, have your child remove the word so Pup can go up.
- When Pup gets all the way up, have your child help Pup pretend to drink up the cup of 7-up.
- Change the order of the words on the stairs and repeat.
- Help your child write a note to Pup explaining how to get up to the cup of 7-up.
- The activity can be repeated several times.
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Standards
SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

http://education.byu.edu/seel/library/
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Pup Goes Up