Make a Cap

Objective

Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with -ap to make and read words such as cap, flap, snap, and strap.

See Standards

Lesson Plan

Target Words:

cap
nap
snap
flap
wrap
strap

Materials:

Scraps of paper and cloth
Cap pattern graphic*
Word-blending cards*
Where is My Cap? target text*
Let's Wrap a Cap! target text*
Book: Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina (1940) (optional)

*Items included below.

State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will wrap caps as they add sounds to the -ap ending to make and read words, such as cap, snap, flap, scrap, and wrap.

Literacy Activities
Make caps

Read the story Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina (optional).
Give the children the scraps of paper or the cap pattern and have them label cap, strap, snap, and flap.
Make a cap with the scraps of paper or the cap pattern:
- Cut a slit to the center of a round piece of paper.
- Make a shallow cap by overlapping the parts of the round paper.
- Use a stapler to ‘snap’ or secure the overlapping flap on the cap.
- Snap (staple) on flaps, straps, and paper snaps while making comments such as “snap a flap on the cap,” and “snap on a flap, snap a strap on the flap, and snap a snap on the strap.”

Wrap a cap and take a nap

Let the children wrap the caps in scraps of paper.
Have the children put the cap in their laps and pretend to take a nap.

Make -ap words

Have the children pass a paper cap.
Have children say a word that ends in -ap and write the -ap word on the cap.

Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
- Change the beginning sound(s): cap → tap; lap → nap; snap → flap
- Change the vowel: flap → flip; snap → snip; cap → cop
- Change the ending sound: cap → cat; rap → rag; tap → tan

Read target words in a text

Read the Where Is My Cap? target text together as a group.
Have the children find the words that end in -ap.
Repeat with the Let's Wrap a Cap! target text.

Write about the activity using target words

Have the children write words from dictation: nap, snap, lap, cap, nap, rap, and tap.
Write words and have children change one or two letters to make a new word: sap → nap; nap → snap; snap → snip; snip → lip; lip → lap; lap → cap; cap → cat; cat → rat; rat → rap; rap → tap.

Let's Wrap a Cap

Let's wrap a cap!
Get a scrap of paper.
Put the paper in your lap.
Put the cap on the scrap of paper.
Flap the paper over the cap.
Make another flap.
It's a snap!
Put the wrapped cap in your lap.
It's a snap to wrap a cap!

Where Is My Cap

Where is my cap?
Have you seen my cap?
My cap has a strap.
Where is my cap with a strap?
My cap has flaps.
Have you seen my cap with flaps and a strap?
My cap has snaps.
Where is my cap with snaps, flaps, and a strap?
I see my cap!
I love my cap with snaps, flaps, and a strap.

Cap Pattern

Word-blending Cards

SEEL At Home

Objective
Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with -ap to make and read words, such as cap, flap, snap, and strap.

Materials

Cap pattern graphic
Scraps of fabric or paper
Scissors

Activity: Make a Cap

Help your child make a cap with flaps, straps, and paper snaps out of scrap fabric or paper:
- Cut a slit to the center of a round piece of paper.
- Flap over the parts of the round paper to make a shallow cap.
- Use a stapler to ‘snap’ the cap’s flap.
- Snap (staple) on flaps, straps, and paper snaps.
Say phrases with the -ap words as you work together (e.g., “Snap a flap to the cap”).
Take turns wearing the cap.
Blend sounds in -ap words (e.g., c + ap = cap; n + ap = nap).
Break up -ap words into their sounds (e.g., lap = l + a + p; nap = n + ap).
Count the sounds heard in -ap words by holding up a finger for each sound (e.g., c - a - p -- three fingers!).