Next, Barbara printed out and laminated a set of raps for each child. Each rap had its own page, and Barbara bound the children's collections into a book for each child, using small loose-leaf rings. She formed reading groups based on hildren's favorite raps and asked them to find words that began with the same sound as the rap subjects' names. For example, for the Harriet Tubman rap Barbara asked the children to find every uppercase H and mark it on the rap in their books with a grease pencil. Barbara continued to use rap as a tool for helping children develop letter know. edge and phonemic awareness skills. She introduced new alphabet letters and their accompanying sounds with each new rap (e.g., the letter A for Arthur Ashe, B for Benjamin Banneker, and M and G or Marcus