How to make and use a Cootie Catcher for Reading

Step 4 More Learning Ideas

Optional: You can open the flaps and add sentences.

• Matt the fat rat sat on a mat.  As he sat he pat his bat.
• Gran and Dan ran to the van to get a pan.
• Rap, tap, tap, clap your lap.

Or you can write a group of similar words to practice together:

• ap, cap, gap, lap, map, nap, rap, sap, tap, clap, etc.
• at, bat, cat, hat, fat, mat, nat, pat, rat, sat, tat, chat, flat, etc.
• ad, bad, dad, had, lad, mad, pad, sad, tad, glad, brad, etc.
• an, can, Jan, fan, man, pan, nan, ran, van, gran, plan, etc.

Check out Quirky Momma for a list of other site words to teach your preschooler, if you want more ideas than what has been provided above.