Overview
The children will wrap caps and read and write words ending with -ap, such as cap, snap, flap, scrap, and tap.

Literacy Activities
Make caps

• Show the children the cap pattern and demonstrate how to make a cap using a scrap of paper (or fabric):
  • OPTION 1: Cut out the parts of the cap pattern.
    • Overlap and staple the two sides of the slit together to form the cap, repeating the word “snap” each time you use the stapler.
    • Attach the straps and snaps to the cap with the stapler.
  • OPTION 2: Cut out circles from scraps of paper or cloth and cut a slit to the center.
    • Snap (staple) the two sides of the slit to form the cap.
    • Make straps and flaps out of scraps of paper or cloth to snap onto the caps.
• Have the children write -ap words (e.g., flap, strap, snap, cap) on small pieces of paper and attach the words to the cap.

Wrap a cap and wrap -ap words

• Let the children wrap the caps in scraps of paper or cloth.
• Cut out the word cards and place them in a real cap or one of the paper/cloth caps.
• Have the children choose the word cards one at a time and help them read the word on the card.
• Let the children wrap each word in a scrap of paper or cloth.

More Practice
Read target words in a text

• Read the Make a Cap target text together with the children.
• Have the children underline the words that end in -ap.
• Repeat with the Let’s Wrap a Cap! target text.

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Give the children a paper and pencil and have them write -ap words from dictation: cap, snap, tap, gap, nap, rap, lap.
• Engage the children in writing about their experience using sentence completion prompts and target words from the activity (support as needed).
  • Examples of sentence completion prompts:
    • I have a _____ (cap) with _____ (snaps), _____ (straps), and _____ (flaps).
    • I can wrap my _____ (cap) in a _____ (scrap) of cloth.