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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Make a Cap

Objective
Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with -ap to make words such as cap, flap, snap, and strap.
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- cap
- wrap
- scrap
- flap
- snap
- strap
Materials:
- Cap pattern graphic
- Scraps of paper and cloth
- Word blending cards
- How to make a cap instructions
- Where is My Cap? target text
- Let's Wrap a Cap! target text
- Book: Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina (1987, HarperCollins) (optional)
Overview
The children will wrap caps as they add sounds to the -ap ending to make words such as cap, snap, flap, scrap, and wrap.
Literacy Activities
Make caps
- Read Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina (optional).
- Give the children the cap pattern and have them label the parts of the cap by writing cap, snap, or flap on the corresponding parts.
- Demonstrate how to make a cap using the instructions provided.
- As you attach the strap and snaps with the stapler, repeat the word “snap” each time.
Wrap a cap and pass a cap
- Let the children wrap the caps in scraps of paper or cloth.
- Play a "pass the cap" game with children.
- Have the children sit in a circle and take turns passing a paper cap.
- As children get the cap, have them say a new word that ends in -ap by changing the beginning sound.
- Have the children write each new word on the paper cap.
More Practice
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 with the group.
- 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
- Give each child a whiteboard and have them write words from dictation, changing one or two letters each time to make a new word: sap → nap → snap → snip → lip → lap → cap → cat → rat → rap → tap.
Instructions: How to Make a Cap
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Using the cap graphic as a pattern, cut out each piece.
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Cut a slit to the center of the circle and wrap the paper to make a shallow cone.
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Cut out the flaps and attach them to both sides of the cap.
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Cut out the straps and snaps and attach them to the cap.
SEEL Target Texts
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!
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.
SEEL At Home
Objective
Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with -ap to make words such as cap, flap, snap, and strap.
Materials
- Cap pattern graphic
- Scrap of fabric or paper, scissors, stapler or tape, pencil
Activity: Make a Cap
- Help your child make a cap with flaps and straps out of scrap fabric or paper.
- Using the cap graphic as a pattern, cut a circle of fabric or paper. Cut a slit to the center of the circle and wrap the fabric or paper to make a shallow cone (cap).
- Cut two half circle flaps and attach them to both sides of the cap.
- Cut two straps of fabric or paper and attach them to the cap.
- Say phrases with the -ap words as you work together (e.g.; Snap a flap to the cap.).
- Play a game with the cap in which one person puts the cap on their head. The person with the cap will say only the beginning sound of an -ap word and the other person must quickly say the -ap ending. Take turns wearing the cap.
- Have your child change the /c/ in cap to /t/ then blend the new sound with the -ap ending to make the word tap. Repeat with other words (e.g., rap, sap, lap, gap, nap).
- The activity can be repeated several times.
Objective
Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with -ap to make 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 and straps out of scrap fabric or paper by following the instructions.
- Say phrases with the -ap words as you work together (e.g., "Snap a flap to the cap.").
- Play a game with the cap and have you or your child put the cap on.
- The person with the cap will say only the beginning sound of the word and the other person must quickly say the -ap ending.
- Take turns wearing the cap.
- Have your child change the /c/ in cap to /t/ then blend the new sound with the -ap ending to make the word tap.
- Repeat with other words (e.g., rap, sap, lap, gap, nap).
- The activity can be repeated several times.
Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.D: Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.C: Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.

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Make a Cap