- word cards that begin with 'k'
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2: Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
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: Attends to the beginning letters and sounds in familiar words.
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizes that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 7: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
Watch Together: “Words Beginning with ‘k’” (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds)
Educator Prep: Make word cards of various plants or seeds that begin with “Kk,” for example, kiwi, kale, kidney bean, kumquat, kelp. Include an illustration/picture of each plant. Place the cards around your setting before watching the video.
Tell children they are going to watch a short video about words that begin with the letter 'k'. Set a viewing focus for children by having them notice the letter “Kk” in each word as it appears on the screen.
Play the video Between the Lions “Words Beginning with ‘k’” through once without stopping.
Replay the video.
- Have children hold up their hand when they see the letter 'k' on the screen.
- Pause and have children repeat the words.
After viewing, encourage children to look around the room and find words that begin with the letter 'k'. Help children read the word/picture cards.
