State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will play with the /th/ sound and thump things with their thumbs. 

Literacy Activity 
Spin number three to thump things with your thumb

• Have the children sit in a circle. 
• Place the spinner and the /th/ picture cards face down (or the objects that begin with the /th/ sound) in the middle of the group. 
• Explain that each child will take turns spinning the spinner. Each time the spinner lands on three, the child can draw from the pile because it begins with /th/. 
• Have the child say the name of the /th/ picture on the card and thump it with a thumb three times while repeating the following chant: 
  • Thump, thump, thump on ___. 
• Repeat until everyone has been able to participate. 

More Practice
Identify and repeat words with the target letter 

• Have the children help you make a list of the /th/ words they heard while playing the game. 
• Have them shadow-read the things they got to thump with their thumb. 
• Emphasize that all of the words begin with the same letters, the letter T and the letter H standing side-by-side, and that those letters together make the sound /th/. 
• Read the Thump It target text aloud to the children, then invite them to join you in chanting it a few times. 
• Highlight the th words in the target text, reading the words that begin with  the /th/ sound aloud, emphasizing the /th/, then chant it again while pointing to the letters th. 
• Ask the children to tell you something that begins with the /th/ sound as they transition away from this activity.