State the Objective 
Tell the children that they will zoom with blooms as they hear and say words that rhyme with bloom such as room, zoom, and boom.

Literacy Activities

Pick blooms and place them in rooms 

• Explain that when flowers first open up, they bloom, and that sometimes a flower is called a bloom; share a video of a flower blooming (optional).
• Have the children pretend to be flowers that bloom by putting their hands on their faces, and then slowly stretching their hands and arms out wide.
• Tape the room labels (see below) to four different places in the room and tell the children that each sign represents a different room.
• Have the children take the flower images (see below) and zoom from room to room, placing a flower bloom in each room. 
• Ask the children to take turns saying a word they heard in the activity that rhymes with bloom. 

Read target words/patterns to the children 

• Read the Bloom in a Room target text (see below) to the children, pointing to each word in left to right sequence.
• Read the text again and have the children point to each word in sequence.

Practice rhyming 

• Remind the children of the words they played with (zoom, bloom, room).
• Ask each child to think of a word that rhymes with zoom.
• If a child doesn't respond in a few seconds, give him/her an option:  
  • "How about boom? Does boom rhyme with zoom?” (Nod your head yes.)  
  • "Do room and zoom rhyme?" (Nod your head yes)

Practice blending and segmenting sounds in words 

Have the children march and say the beginning and ending sound of the word zoom: 

• Segment sounds: say /z/ (march right), say /oo/ (march left), say /m/ (march right)
• Blend sounds: jump with both feet and say zoom to blend the sounds into a word
• Repeat with other words that rhyme with zoom (e.g.  room, boom, doom, etc.)