Overview
The children will make a funny frame for Fran as they practice saying the /f/ sound in words such as fan, fox, flag, and funny.

Literacy Activity
Make a funny frame

• Cut a large frame out of cardboard or heavy paper, with a hole in the center large enough to frame the letter cards and picture cards.
• Attach the frame to a classroom whiteboard.
• Tell the children the frame belongs to a friend named Fran, and explain that Fran only wants things that begin with the letter F inside his funny frame.
• Have the children choose a picture card and decide whether the item belongs inside the frame.
  • If the item starts with the /f/ sound, have the children place it inside Fran's frame using a magnet.
  • If the item does not start with the /f/ sound, have the children discard it.
• Make a list of the pictures inside the frame.
• Emphasize that each word begins with the letter F, which makes the /f/ sound in the word frame.

More Practice 
Read target words in a text

• Read the Fran’s Funny Frame target text to the children.
• Have the children say the /f/ sound each time they find and underline the letters F and f throughout the text.
• Read the text again, and have the children wiggle their fingers every time they hear a word that starts with the /f/ sound.

Write the target letter

• Have the children write the uppercase letter F and the lowercase letter f while producing the /f/ sound (support as needed).
• Have the children glue their letters to Fran’s frame.