T Treasure Trip

Objective
Associate the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t with the /t/ sound as in treasure, tools, and trail.
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- treasure
- trip
- tools
- terrifying
- trail
Materials:
- Masking tape
- Going on a Treasure Trip chant
- Picture cards
- Hopscotch grid
- Object that begins with the /t/ sound
- Book: Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1989) (optional)
Overview
The children will go on a treasure trip and then practice writing the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t and saying the /t/ sound as in trip, terrific, and trail.
Literacy Activities
Tape a T Trail
- Teach the children how to write the letter T.
- Practice writing the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t in the air.
- Using tape, make a trail of Ts on the ground that leads to a large T.
Treasure Trip
- Read the book Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and tell the children that instead of hunting for bears, we can hunt for treasure (optional).
- Tell the children they will be going on a treasure trip.
- Say, “If you see anything terrifying, say the magic /t/ sound.”
- Act out the Going on a Treasure Trip chant with the children as you read each line and they repeat it.
- As the children encounter terrifying things on the treasure trip, show them the corresponding picture cards.
More Practice
Toss and tiptoe
- Create a hopscotch game by drawing a hopscotch grid on a large piece of paper or by placing smaller sheets of paper together.
- Invite the children to write the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t on each square.
- Drop an object that begins with the /t/ sound (e.g., tool, token, treasure) onto a hopscotch square.
- Have the children tiptoe around the square where the object lands.
- Have the children say the /t/ sound as they tiptoe from square to square.
Read the T Treasure Trip text
- Read the T Treasure Trip chant to the children.
- Have the children find and circle the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t throughout the text, saying the /t/ sound each time they circle the letter T.
- Read the text again and have the children clap each time they hear the /t/ sound.
Write the target letter
- Draw all of the T objects that the children came across on their trip.
- Help the children label each item underneath the picture (support as needed).
SEEL At Home
Objective
Associate the uppercase letter T and the lowercase letter t with the /t/ sound as in treasure, trip, and toads.
Materials
- Going on a Treasure Trip chant
- Picture cards
- Tape
Activity: T Treasure Trip
- Using tape, make a trail of Ts on the ground that leads to a large T.
- Set out the picture cards along the trail.
- Pretend to go on a trip looking for treasure, tiptoeing along the trail and following the Going on a Treasure Trip chant.
- Have your child repeat each line after you read it.
- Be sure to reach the letter T by the time you sing the fourth chorus.
- Continue with the chant until the end.
- Help your child write a list of the things he or she saw on the treasure trip that start with the letter T.
- Read the list together and have your child circle the T in each word, saying the /t/ sound.
- Repeat the activity as desired.
Standards
SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

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T Treasure Trip