- all
- almost all
- none
- some
- wiggle
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).
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:
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: Recognizes that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Attends to the beginning letters and sounds in familiar words.
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: “Lions Wiggling” (BTL clip)
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ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening and Viewing, Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Vocabulary, Gross Motor Skills
Tell children they are going to watch a short video about the Lion Family and the word wiggle. Have children demonstrate wiggling.
Then play Between the Lions “Lions Wiggling.”
- Have children wiggle along with the lion family.
Replay the video.
- Group the children.
- Have them wiggle with the lions as they act out the words none, some, almost all, and all.
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