- box
- pictures of a fox, an ax, an ox
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.2.a With guidance and support, recognize and produce rhyming words (e.g., identify words that rhyme with /cat/ such as /bat/ and /sat/).
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 8 Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Last Sound You Hear (/ks/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Ending Sounds)
Help children hear and recognize the /ks/ sound of the letter “Xx” at the end of words.
- Show children a box.
- Ask, What is this? Let’s say the word together: box. Did you hear the /ks/ sound at the end of the word? Let’s say it again: box.
- Repeat the process with the words fox, ax, and ox. If available, show children pictures of a fox, an ax, and an ox.
- Ask, What do you notice about the words box, fox, and ox? Yes, they rhyme.