- The Three Little Javelinas (book)
- end
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.3 Demonstrate beginning understanding of phonics and word analysis skills.
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.
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge Recognizes that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge Recognizes that letters of the alphabet have distinct sound(s) associated with them.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
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: Ending Sounds (/t/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Phonological Awareness (Ending Sounds)
Play a listening game to help children recognize the /t/ sound at the end of words. Display the cover of The Three Little Javelinas and point to the desert scenery.
- Emphasize the /t/ sound at the end of the word desert as you say, The three javelinas live in the desert-t-t-t. What sound do you hear at the end of the word desert?
- Tell children you are going to point to some items in the The Three Little Javelinas book and you want them to say the name of the item. After each item is named ask, What sound do you hear at the end of the word <paint>? Begin with /t/ words, and then review other letters learned. (/t/: paint, hat, jackrabbit, snout; /s/: cactus; /k/: rock, brick; /d/: bird; /n/: moon; /r/: feather)
- Show children pictures in the following order: cactus, snout, tumbleweed, hat, sticks, forest, jackrabbit, bird (or use the illustrations in the book). As you show each picture, ask, What is this? Repeat the word, emphasizing the end sound. Ask, Do you hear the /t/ sound at the end of the word (hat)?