- chart paper
- letter card “Kk”
- marker
ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds)
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:
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizes that letters of the alphabet have distinct sound(s) associated with them.
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Attends to the beginning letters and sounds in familiar words.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 7: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8: Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
Word Play: Alliteration (/k/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds)
Hold up the letter card “Kk.” Ask children what sound the letter “Kk” makes. Then copy the following sentence on chart paper, reading each word slowly as you write.
Kevin keeps kiwis in the kitchen.
Read the sentence aloud, stressing the /k/ sound. Ask, What sound do you hear at the beginning of many of the words in this sentence? Invite children to repeat the sentence with you as you point to the words.
Take It Further: Help interested children make up more alliterative sentences of their own.
Adaptation: If children become frustrated trying to say the sentence, just review the letter sound with them by having them repeat each word after you slowly.