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/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: “Word Morph: kiwi–kids–kitten–kite” (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Active Listening, Vocabulary
Tell children they are going to watch a video about words that begin with the letter 'k'.
Play the Between the Lions video clip “Word Morph: kiwi–kids–kitten–kite” through once without pausing.
Play it again and pause so the children can repeat the words after with the narrator.
- You may need to explain unfamiliar words such as kiwi or kayak.
- Ask children to name other words that begin with the letter 'k'.
