- Flower Garden (book)
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/Language 1: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Word Play: Clapping Word Parts
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Segmenting), Vocabulary
Hold up Flower Garden and open to the page with the flower names. Tell children you are going to help them clap the word parts or syllables for each flower name.
- Say, Pan-sey. Repeat the word as you clap each part.
- Say, I clapped two times, so there are two parts to the flower word pansy. Have children say the word and clap along with you.
- Repeat with daisy, daffodil, tulip, and geranium.
Educator Tip: Guided and independent letter, sound, and word practice continues to take place in center activities. If desired, you can set up the literacy center immediately after the direct instruction and repeat instruction before children work in the literacy center identifying letters.