Overview  
The children will read and write words ending with -ut, like tut, nut, but, cut and hut.  

Literacy Activities
Collect -ut words from the King Tut hut

• Divide the children into groups of two to six and give each group a game board.
• Give each of the children an -ut game piece and have them each color their piece a different color.
• Explain and demonstrate how to play the game:
  • Roll the die and move your game piece the specified number of spaces.
  • If you land on an –ut word, take an –ut word card from the King Tut hut and read it out loud.
  • The person with the most word cards at the end of the game gets to wear the King Tut crown for the next round. (In the case of a tie, have several crowns available.)    
• Repeat the game as desired.
• Ask the children what words in the game ended in -ut. 

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds 

• Let the children make a target word (e.g. tut) from letter cards and then let them make different words by changing either of the consonants or the vowel. 
  • Change the beginning sound(s): tut → hut; nut → but; hut → cut 
  • Change the vowel sound(s): but → bat; hut → hit; nut → net
  • Change the ending sound(s): but → bun; cut → cup; nut → nun
• 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 -ut in the King Tut target text. 
• Read the King Tut text to the children. 
• Engage the children in reading the King Tut text simultaneously with you. 
• Read the King Tut text again, fading support. 

Write about the activity using target words and phrases 

• Display target words on a word wall (i.e., tut, nut, but) 
• Refer the children to the word wall and have them write a sentence or two expressing ideas from a lesson activity or target text (e.g., King Tut lives in a hut).