Overview
The children will learn a rap called Tap Clap Rap, with actions that go with it as they read and write words ending with –ap such as lap, cap, sap, and rap.

Literacy Activities
Tap Clap Rap

• Have the children sit in a circle.
• Teach the children the words and actions of the Tap Clap Rap target text.
• Let the children take turns being at the center of the circle while everybody says the rap and does the actions.

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

Write target words

• Give each child a copy of the Tap Clap Rap with missing –ap endings. Have each child fill in the –ap endings on their copy.

Read target words in a text

• Have the children read the –ap words after they have been written (support where necessary by sounding out the beginning sounds and letting the children say the –ap ending).
• Read the whole rap together.