Overview
The children will say a tap and clap chant as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with tap, such as clap, flap, snap, and trap.

Literacy Activities
Tap, Tap, Clap chant

• Read the book Rap A Tap Tap by Leo and Diane Dillon to the children (optional), pointing out the words that rhyme with tap.
• Invite the children to join you in clapping then tapping.
• Teach the children the Tap, Tap, Clap chant as you chant the line first and the children echo it back.
• Have the children clap and tap with the chant, changing the style as desired (e.g., faster, slower).
• Point out that clap and tap rhyme and help the children think of other words that rhyme with tap.

More Practice
Act out words that rhyme with tap

• Call out a word that rhymes with tap and do a related action then have the children echo the word and copy the action.
• Repeat with a few other words that rhyme with tap (e.g., flap - flap arms; clap - clap hands; snap - snap fingers), pointing out the words that rhyme.  
• Let the children take turns calling and acting out words that rhyme with tap for the class to copy.

Recognize rhyming words 

• Have the children repeat a set of two words (e.g., tap, clap).
• Ask the children to show you thumbs up if the words rhyme and thumbs down if the words do not rhyme (support as needed).
• Repeat with other sets of words: (e.g., cap, strap; gap, come; lap, trap; sap, map; chap, shoe; nap, rap).