MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.2: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
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: Clap the Last Sound (/n/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Ending Sounds)
Tell children you want them to clap when they hear the last sound in the word hen.
- Demonstrate for children by slowly saying hen, emphasizing the /n/ sound and clapping. Ask, What sound did you hear at the end of the word hen? Yes, /n/.
- Repeat the procedure with the words run, pan, kitchen, then, win, pen, and kitten, prompting children to clap when they hear the last sound.
- After children identify several /n/ sounds, mix in a few words that do not end in the /n/ sound. For example: hen, pen, pet; pan, fan, fat.