Overview
The children will wiggle the letter W in a wiggle waggle dance as they recognize and name the uppercase letter W and the lowercase letter w.

Literacy Activities
Wiggle Waggle

• Write the uppercase letter W and the lowercase letter w on a whiteboard, name the letters, and have the children say the letter name as they write the W and w in the air with their fingers.
• Read the book Wiggle! By Doreen Cronin to the children, emphasizing the letter W (optional).
• Give the children a letter card and have them name the letter on the card.
• Teach the children the words and actions to the Wiggle Dance chant.
• Explain that wiggle and waggle mean to shake or move back and forth and that whirl means to spin around.
• Turn on instrumental music (optional).
• Allow the children to wiggle, waggle, and whirl their W letter card as they do the Wiggle Dance.

More Practice
Identify the target letter in a text

• Show the children the text for the Wiggle Dance chant.
• Have the children circle the letter W every time it occurs in the text.
• Read the text slowly, following along with your finger, and have the children write the letter W in the air each time they see the letter W in the text.

Write the target letter

• Help the children write the letter W on a piece of paper.
• Allow the children to do the Wiggle Dance again using the W letter card that they made.