State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will see a greedy gorilla gobble up things that begin with the hard g (/g/) sound as they listen for words that begin with the /g/ sound, such as greedy, gorilla, groceries, and gobble.

Literacy Activities
Gobble /g/ words

• Assemble the gorilla puppet according to the instructions and make enough picture cards for each child to have one.
• Ask one child to be the puppeteer and work the gorilla puppet, and give each of the rest of the children a picture card. 
• Have the children with the picture cards sit in a circle while the child with the puppet stands in the middle. 
• Tell the puppeteer in the middle to extend his arm, point his finger, close his eyes, and turn around three times. 
• When the puppeteer stops turning, he should keep his eyes closed and keep pointing in front of himself. 
• Whoever the puppeteer is pointing at gets to say what is on his or her card. 
• The puppeteer will then open his eyes and make the greedy gorilla puppet pretend to gobble up the card. 
• Have all of the children say, “Gobble, gobble, gobble! Gobble the ___ (name of the picture on the card)!” 
• Repeat as many times as desired, allowing other children to stand in the middle and hold the greedy gorilla. 

More Practice
Repeat words with the target letter

• Display a shopping list, explain that the greedy gorilla only likes groceries that start with /g/, and have the children watch and listen for the /g/ groceries in the list that the gorilla would like.
• Point to each item in the list as you read them aloud.
  • If the item starts with the /g/ sound, have the children put their thumbs up as you put a green check mark by the item.
  • If the item doesn't start with the /g/ sound, look sad, and have the children put their thumbs down.
• Read the green-checked items in the list back to the children, emphasizing the /g/ sound in each one.