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.
Word Play: Tap the Sound (/g/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Vocabulary
Help children distinguish the letter sound /g/. Tell children you are going to say some words. Say, Listen carefully to the beginning sound you hear in each word. If you hear a /g/ at the beginning of the word, shout out g-g-g.
- Slowly say the word g-g-garden, emphasizing the beginning /g/ sound. When you say the /g/ sound, motion for children to say the extended g-g-g sound out loud.
- Repeat the procedure with the words such as gardenia, gardener, goose, and grill.