- paper bag
- pictures of things that start with /v/ sound
- word card vegetable
MA Standards:
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.
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.3.a: Link an initial sound to a picture of an object that begins with that sound and, with guidance and support, to the corresponding printed letter (e.g., link the initial sound /b/ to a picture of a ball and, with support, to a printed or written ”B”).
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.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8: Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 9: Link letters with sounds in play activities.
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/v/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Vocabulary
Hold up the word card. Ask, Who remembers what this word is? Yes, it is the word vegetable. What sound do you hear at the beginning of the word vegetable? Stress the /v/ sound as you say the word.
- Show children a paper bag filled with pictures of objects that begin with the /v/ sound.
- Ask a child to pull a picture from the bag and name it. (violin)
- Repeat the word, emphasizing the beginning /v/ sound.
- Say, The word violin begins with the /v/ sound just like the word vegetable. Listen to the word in a sentence: You can play music on a v-v-v-violin.
- Let children take turns reaching into the bag, retrieving a picture, and identifying the /v/ object shown.
- Challenge children to try to use the word in a sentence.
- Ask, Can you think of any other words that begin with the /v/ sound?
Adaptation: If children have difficulty coming up with another word for the /v/ sound, allow them to look at ABC books in the Library Center for ideas.
Educator Tip: Guided and independent Letter, Sound, and Word practice continues to take place in center activities. It is helpful to set up the literacy center immediately after the direct instruction and repeat instruction before children work in the literacy center identifying letters.