Overview
The children will pretend to take X-rays of different items and then practice writing the letter X and saying the /ks/ sound in words such as t-rex, fox, and ax.

Literacy Activities
Examine X-rays

• Turn off the lights.
• Explain that the children will be examining x-rays.
• Shine a flashlight through the back of the picture and have the children try to guess the image behind the X.
• When a child guesses correctly, have him or her say, “An x-ray of a(n) ___!”
• Write the name of the image on the board and have the children point to the X in the word and say the /ks/ sound.
• Have the children use the letter cards to form the words from the activity. 

More Practice
Box hop

• Create a hopscotch grid on the floor using masking tape.
• Have the children help form a letter X out of tape for each square of the grid. 
• Drop a small box somewhere on the hopscotch grid.
• Instruct the children to hop along the hopscotch grid, avoiding the square where the box landed.
• Have the children say the /ks/ sound as they hop from square to square.

Write the target letter

• Have the children draw a picture of one of the X-ray images and cut it out to make their own X-ray.
• Have the children write the letter X all over their X-ray image.