Overview
The children will ask for nuts from a hut as they read and write words ending with -ut such as tut, nut, hut, shut, but, and cut.

Literacy Activities
Shut the nut hut

• Invite one child to knock on the door of the hut while saying, “Tut, tut can I have a nut?”
• Have the child open the door, choose a nut word card from the pile and read the word on the nut.  
• If the word ends with –ut, the child can keep the nut and shut the hut.
• If the word doesn’t end with –ut, have the child pretend to use scissors to cut the nut, put the card on the table, and shut the hut.
• Repeat the activity so every child has at least one turn to knock on the hut and read a word on a nut. 
• Invite the children to take turns reading aloud the -ut word(s) on the nut(s) they got from the hut. 

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 → cut; cut → tut
  • Change the vowel sound: hut → hat; nut → net; tut → tot 
  • Change the ending sound(s): hut → hum; tut → tub
• 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 Nut Hut target text.
• Read The Nut Hut text to the children. 
• Engage the children in reading the text simultaneously with you. 
• Read The Nut Hut text again, fading support. 

Write about the activity using target words and phrases 

• Display target words on a word wall (i.e., tut, nut, hut, shut) and then engage the children in one of the following: 
• Review the lesson activity, give the children a story starter (e.g., I asked for a nut 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 of two expressing ideas from a lesson activity or target text (e.g., Choose a nut from the hut).