Overview
The children will pretend their fingers are wiggle worms as they practice saying the /w/ sound in words such as wiggle, watch, and worm.

Literacy Activities
Wiggle and waggle

• Read the Wiggle Worms target text with the children.
• Have the children circle the letter W each time it occurs in the Wiggle Worms target text.
• Use a black marker to draw two eyes and a smile on the tip of each child’s  index fingers to make a worm (optional).
• Read the text again and have the children wiggle their finger every time they hear a word in the text that begins with the /w/ sound.
• Set out a pan filled with dirt or sand and let the children wiggle their fingers in the dirt like worms.
• Help the children trace the letter W in the sand and have them say the /w/ sound each time they trace the letter W.

Identify the target sound

• As a group, write a short story on the whiteboard about a wiggling worm that gets wet.
  • Use words beginning with the letter W as much as possible.
  • Have the children take turns writing the letter W at the beginning of each word that begins with the /w/ sound.
  • Read the story together and let the children wiggle their fingers every time they hear a word that starts with the /w/ sound.

Write the target letter

• Help the children write the letter W on the writing practice page.
• Have the children say the /w/ sound each time they write the letter W.
• Allow the children to draw a picture of a wiggle worm in the space below the letters.