- ABC picture books
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 ‘w’” (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Active Viewing, Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds)
Tell children they are going to watch a video about words that begin with the letter “w.”
Play Between the Lions “Words Beginning with “w” through once without pausing.
Replay the video and have children wave each time they see the letter “w”on the screen.
- Pause the video to allow children to repeat each word along with the narrator.
- Have children look through ABC books and name more words that start with “w.”
Adaptation: Challenge capable children to look around the room at signs, charts, books, and other materials to find as many words as possible that have the letter “w” in them. You might want to set a time limit of five minutes for the search.
Educator Tip: Guided and independent letter, sound, and word practice continues to take place in center activities. If desired, you can set up the literacy center immediately after the direct instruction and repeat instruction before children work in the literacy center identifying letters.
