Overview  
The children will get to rap while they read and write words ending in –ap such as cap, sap, tap, and lap.

Literacy Activities
Rap a Tap Tap

• Explain to the children that rap is a form of music using spoken words that adds rhythm to words that rhyme.
• Read Rap a Tap Tap by Leo & Diane Dillon (optional).
• Rap the Rap a Tap Tap rap with the children, clapping hands to emphasize the rhythm.
• Teach the children the words to the rap, this time tapping feet to emphasize the rhythm.
• Repeat the activity as desired, using other body parts to tap out the rhythm.
• If desired, use the Mr. Bojangles puppet to tap out the rhythm of the rap.

More Practice
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

• With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing either of the consonants or the vowel:
  • rap → tap; lap → cap; nap → gap
  • rap → rip; tap → tip; cap → cup
  • lap → lad; map → mat; rap → ram

Read target words

• Display the sentence strips to the children, and distribute one word card to each child. 
• Ask individual children to read their word to the group, then match it to the same word in a sentence strip.  

Write target words

• Have the children generate a list of –ap words and write them on the board.
• Have each child write about the activity they just did, using as many –ap words from the board as they can.