MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.2.c: Identify the initial sound of a spoken word and, with guidance and support, generate several other words that have the same initial sound.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
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.
Watch Together: “Words Beginning with ‘g’” (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Vocabulary
Watch the Between the Lions video clip “Words Beginning with ‘g’” once without stopping.
Play it again and have children clap each time they hear the /g/ sound. You may want to pause the video to allow children to repeat each /g/ word. Encourage children to name more words that start with the hard /g/.
Adaptation: If children have difficulty coming up with other words that start with hard /g/, allow them to look at ABC books for ideas.
