Bottle Top Sentences

1. Trace the bottle top to create a circle for each word of your sentence.
2. Write a word inside each circle.
3. Write a word on each bottle top using a permanent marker.

1. Encourage Your child to match each bottle top to the circles on the sentence strip.
2. If your child is a strong reader, ask them what word they are matching. If your child is a beginning reader, comment every now and then with a statement like “Oh you are finding the match for the word “my”.”
3. Once all of the bottle tops are matched, read the sentence together. For my beginning reader, I read the sentence while pointing to each word to model it. Your child can also point as you read it.

I love how simple this activity is to make and play with. Once you have a collection of bottle tops with words on them, here are some other ways you can use them to make learning fun:

• Sort the words by type.
• Sort the words by beginning letter sound
• Sort the words: long words/short words
• Sort the words: words I know/words I’m learning
• Put the bottle tops in a bowl of water and “Go Fishing” like we did with Bottle Top Fish.
• Hide your bottle tops around the room and find them to make a sentence.