State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will hear and say words that rhyme with nut such as shut, rut, hut, and cut. 
 
Literacy Activities
Make a Nut Hut

• Read the book Nuts to You! emphasizing target words (optional). 
• Show the children a completed nut hut.
• Help the children assemble paper huts (see graphics and instructions below).
• Comment on words that rhyme with hut. (e.g., “nut, cut, shut rhyme with hut”)

Find a Nut

• Hide nut graphics (see below) around the room.
• Teach the children the Find a Nut song (see below)
• Let the children cut the paper nuts. 
• Have the children put the cut nuts in their paper huts.  
• Have them shut the cut nuts in the hut.
• Comment on words that rhyme with nut.
• Ask the children what words rhyme with nut (e.g., hut, cut, shut).

Recognize rhyming words 

• Ask the children to show you thumbs up if two words rhyme (e.g., nut, hut) and thumbs down if the words do not rhyme (e.g., hut, goat).
• Repeat with other sets of words: (e.g., shut, hut; shut, horse; cut, nut).

March and make words 

• Have the children blend word parts into whole words:
  • March right and say the beginning sound 
  • March left and say the -ut ending 
  • Put two feet together and say the word. 
    • c + ut  = cut
    • h + ut = hut
    • b + ut = but
    • n + ut = nut
    • sh + ut = shut