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: Alliteration (/w/) #1
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Vocabulary
Ask children to listen carefully as you repeat the following tongue twister:
Willie wiggled wildly.
Ask, What sound do you hear at the beginning of each word? (/w/) Repeat the words slowly, emphasizing the beginning sound. Challenge children to repeat the tongue twister three times.
Take It Further: Pair children to make up more alliterative sentences of their own.
Adaptation: With very young children, you may wish to simply say the alliterative sentence slowly with them and not do the tongue twisting, which might become frustrating for some.