- letter card “Cc”
- name chart
- lowercase
- uppercase
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1.d: Recognize and name some uppercase letters of the alphabet and the lowercase letters in one’s own name.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizes that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 7: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
Learn About Letters Together: Letters in Our Names ("Cc")
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ELA Focus Skills: Letter Recognition, Name Recognition, Vocabulary
Hold up the letter card “Cc” and say, Let’s look at the name chart again and see who has the letter “Cc” in their name.
- Have each child come up to the chart and see if they can identify the letter “Cc” in their name.
- Discuss whether it is an uppercase or a lowercase “Cc” and why. (The first letter in a name is always uppercase, the other letters are lowercase.)
- If children do not have a letter "Cc" in their name, help them name the first letter of their name.
Educator Tip: If you have children who have a soft “Cc” in their names (i.e, Cindy, Caesar), you may want to explain that the letter “Cc” sometimes makes the sound you hear in color, but other times it has a different sound /s/.
Educator Tip: Guided and independent Letter, Sound, and Word practice continues to take place in center activities. It is helpful to set up the literacy center immediately after the direct instruction and repeat instruction before children work in the literacy center identifying letters.