State the Objective

Tell the children that they will sing a tap and clap chant as they recognize and read words that rhyme with tap, such as clap, flap, snap, and trap.

Literacy Activities

Tap, Tap, Clap

• Invite the children to join you in clapping and tapping.
• Have the children echo each line in the Tap, Tap, Clap chant (see below).
• Let the children clap and tap with the song, changing the style as desired.
• Point out to the children that clap and tap rhyme.
• Help the children think of more words that rhyme with tap.

Recognize rhyming words 

• Have the children repeat a set of two words (e.g., tap and clap).
• Ask the children to snap their fingers if the words rhyme.
• Repeat with other sets of words: (e.g., cap, strap; lap, trap; sap, map; gap, shoe; nap, rap).

Read and write -ap words

• Show the children the -ap word ending.
• Write the letter t in front of the -ap ending. Help the children read the word. 
• Erase the t, then repeat with the letters m, s, and g. 
• Have children write -ap words from dictation (e.g., tap, map, sap, gap). 

Blend spoken sounds into words 

• Segment an -ap word into its sounds and ask the children what word you are saying:
  
  • m + ap

 OR

• m + a + p
• If children don’t answer after 2-3 seconds, pronounce the whole word:
  
  •  “Map! M + a + p makes map!”
• Repeat with more words (e.g., cap, tap, nap, rap, gap).