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 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.
Recite Together: “Willoughby Wallaby Wirt”
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds; Rhythm, Rhyme, and Repetition)
Tell children you are going to sing a silly song with a lot of /w/ sounds. Say, Whenever you hear a /w/ sound I want you to wiggle in your seat. Sing this variation of “Willoughby Wallaby Wirt” to children once. Then have children sing along with you.
Willoughby Wallaby Wirt
Willoughby Wallaby Wirt
An earthworm tunneled in dirt
Willoughby Wallaby Wee
An earthworm wiggled past me!