Children wear the first sound a word makes while engaged in the helper activity. For example, the child who passes out milk wears the m, child who washes tables wears w, t. Child who pushes in the chairs wears the ch diagraph. Martone Hatter

Letter/Sound Match:

Alphabet patches are displayed on the wall within children’s reach. Pictures representing the initial sounds with the corresponding block letters are attached to the wall under the cloth letters. Children go to the wall, name the letter, lift the letter patch, then name the picture and the sound the first letter makes. Chanda Toal

Matching Upper and Lower Case Letters:

1. Students go to remote part of room and put on cape and upper case letters.

2. Teacher places lower case letters on the carpet or tables around the room.

3. When the music starts, students find their matching lower case letter.

4. When the music stops, teacher has students say the letter they are wearing. Carrie Fisher

Partners Letter Match:

Put upper case letters to review on one group of children on one side of the room and their matching lower case letters on another group on the other side of the room. When the music begins, children find their matching letter and link arms. Take turns stating who they are, I’m the upper case R, I’m the lower case r, etc.

Anonymous

Musical Letters:

Students walk around the room while the music plays. When the music stops, they put the letter on their cape. Next, they name the letter they are wearing. Cindy Hoover

Red Rover:

Like the traditional game, but instead, children wear letters, numbers, marks of punctuation or number operators. Children are in their capes and patches on one side of the room. Teacher is on the other side of the room and says, “Red Rover, Red Rover send “B” right over.”

Tiffany Linderman and Marisa Jackson

Fashion Show:

Use letters, numbers, or symbols. Children take turns promenading down the center isle while naming whatever is on their patch. Margaret Lawson

Pick My Letter:

Students pick the beginning letter of the first or last name. Other students learned the student’s first letter and sound.

Deb Peck

Name Making:

Student finds the letters in his/her name and puts the letter patches on their friends. Variation: Teacher puts one or two wrong letters to spell out child’s name on children. Student has to fix their name. Margaret Lawson

What’s my Letter?:

Children stand in a circle. The person wearing the letter for the day, goes up and stands in front of each child one by one and asks the child, “What’s my Letter?” Variation: using the same method, children can ask for the sound, name numbers, symbols or clap the number of times for 1-1 correspondence. Anonymous

Build a Rhyme:

Set up children with at, an, or ot. Add consonants to the first position and it becomes a rhyming line by adding c, f, h, m, p, r, s, t etc. Deb Peck

Punctuation:

Students wear punctuation patches. The teacher makes a statement, asks a question makes a simple statement or uses an exclamatory phrase. Students answer questions regarding the correct punctuation.

Anonymous

Guess What I am?

Using punctuation/universal symbols, children would demonstrate with their body/voice what the symbol was.

Deb Peck

Making Words:

Children wear various letters. I say a word and they move to make the word. I usually use only 3-4 letter words. I do this with groups of 8 children

Anonymous

Center Rotation:

Assign one child for each center to wear a letter or number Stamp the same letter/number on the group members hands or write the letter/number on a price sticker and stick to the group members hands before going to centers. H’s are in the house, B’s are in the Block center etc. Anonymous

Kindersize/Colors:

Used the Kinderman CD color rap with Capes/patches (Martone made up her own color patches. The colors set was not available at the time of the study.) Martone Hatter