State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will play with nuts and nets as they read and write words with different short vowels.

Literacy Activities
Explore nuts and nets

• Engage the children in reading the Not a Nut text, fading support.
• Show the children the nut and the net. Hold up the nut and ask, “Is this a net?” Hold up the net and ask, “Is this a nut?” State that the nut is not a net.
• Let the children put a nut on a net and a net on a nut. Let the child put a nut in a net.
• Comment that a net can not go in a nut.

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Let the children label the nut and the net.
• Have the children write words from dictation (e.g., net, nut, net).
• Help the children write the sentence “A net is not a nut” and "A nut is not a net.”

Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• With word-building cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowels:
  • net→ nut→ not