let's make a cap
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- cap
- wrap
- scrap
- flap
- snap
- strap
Materials:
- Cap pattern
- Scraps of paper and cloth
- Small pieces of paper
- Word cards
- Make a Cap target text
- Let’s Wrap a Cap target text
- Book: Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina (Harper Collins, 1987) (optional)
Overview
The children will wrap caps and read and write words ending with -ap, such as cap, snap, flap, scrap, and tap.
Literacy Activities
Make caps
- Show the children the cap pattern and demonstrate how to make a cap using a scrap of paper (or fabric):
- OPTION 1: Cut out the parts of the cap pattern.
- Overlap and staple the two sides of the slit together to form the cap, repeating the word “snap” each time you use the stapler.
- Attach the straps and snaps to the cap with the stapler.
- OPTION 2: Cut out circles from scraps of paper or cloth and cut a slit to the center.
- Snap (staple) the two sides of the slit to form the cap.
- Make straps and flaps out of scraps of paper or cloth to snap onto the caps.
- OPTION 1: Cut out the parts of the cap pattern.
- Have the children write -ap words (e.g., flap, strap, snap, cap) on small pieces of paper and attach the words to the cap.
Wrap a cap and wrap -ap words
- Let the children wrap the caps in scraps of paper or cloth.
- Cut out the word cards and place them in a real cap or one of the paper/cloth caps.
- Have the children choose the word cards one at a time and help them read the word on the card.
- Let the children wrap each word in a scrap of paper or cloth.
More Practice
Read target words in a text
- Read the Make a Cap target text together with the children.
- Have the children underline the words that end in -ap.
- Repeat with the Let’s Wrap a Cap! target text.
Write about the activity using target words/patterns
- Give the children a paper and pencil and have them write -ap words from dictation: cap, snap, tap, gap, nap, rap, lap.
- Engage the children in writing about their experience using sentence completion prompts and target words from the activity (support as needed).
- Examples of sentence completion prompts:
- I have a _____ (cap) with _____ (snaps), _____ (straps), and _____ (flaps).
- I can wrap my _____ (cap) in a _____ (scrap) of cloth.
- Examples of sentence completion prompts:
SEEL Target Texts
Make a Cap
Let's Wrap a Cap
SEEL At Home
Objective
Read and write words that end in -ap.
Materials
- Cap pattern
- Scraps of fabric or paper
- Small pieces of paper
Activity: Make a Cap
- Help your child make a cap with flaps and straps out of scrap fabric or paper:
- Using the cap pattern or working freehand, cut a circle of fabric or paper.
- Cut a slit from the edge to the center of the circle and wrap the fabric or paper to make a shallow cone (cap).
- Cut out the flaps and attach them to both sides of the cap.
- Cut 2 straps of fabric or paper and attach them to the bottoms of the flaps.
- As you work together, use -ap words talk to your child about what you are doing (e.g.; Snap a flap to the cap.).
- Play a game where one person puts the cap on their head and says the beginning sound of an -ap word, then the other person says -ap, and then together you say the whole word (e.g., c + ap = cap).
- Have your child write several -ap words (e.g., cap, tap, map, nap, sap, gap) on small pieces of paper and attach them to the cap.
Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B: Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.D: Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)

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Let's Make a Cap