Let's Make a Cap

Objective

Read and write words that end in -ap.

Target Words:

Materials:

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.
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

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.

Make a cap.

Put on flaps, straps, and snaps.

Snap flaps on the cap.

Snap straps on the cap.

Snap snaps on the straps.

A cap with flaps, straps, and snaps!

Let’s wrap a cap!

Get a scrap of paper.

Put the paper in your lap.

Put a cap on the scrap of paper.

Flap the paper over the cap.

Make another flap.

It’s a snap!

Put the cap wrapped in a scrap in your lap.

It’s a snap to wrap a cap!

Objective

Read and write words that end in -ap.

Materials

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.