- bag
- pictures of objects that begin with the /t/ sound (table, taxi, television, tent, tiger, toe, tomato, toothbrush, and turtle) and a few pictures of items that do not (balloon, lamp, snake, chicken, duck)
- word card tool
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.3.a Link an initial sound to a picture of an object that begins with that sound and, with guidance and support, to the corresponding printed letter (e.g., link the initial sound /b/ to a picture of a ball and, with support, to a printed or written ”B”).
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Phonological Awareness Identifies and discriminates between sounds and phonemes in language, such as attention to beginning and ending sounds of words and recognition that different words begin or end with the same sound.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 7 Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8 Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 9 Link letters with sounds in play activities.
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/t/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Letter Recognition, Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds)
Remind children that the letter “Tt” makes the /t/ sound. Hold up the word card tool and say the word slowly, emphasizing the /t/ sound. Ask, Can you hear the /t/ sound? Say the word with me, t-t-t-t-tool.
- Display a bag along with the pictures of objects that begin with the /t/ sound and the pictures of objects that don’t. Name each item.
- Tell children that only pictures of things that begin with the /t/ sound belong in the bag.
- Spread the pictures on a table.
- Hold up the picture of the television and ask, Does the word television begin with the same sound as the word tool? Say, television, tool. Yes, they both begin with the /t/ sound. Have a child place the picture in the bag.
- Invite children to take turns picking up an object, naming it, and placing it in the bag if it begins with /t/. Continue until all items have been sorted.