- cliff
- fabulous
- fake
MA Standards:
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: Recognizes that letters of the alphabet have distinct sound(s) associated with them.
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.
Cliff Hanger and the Fabulous Flying Fish (BTL clip)
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Skill Focus: Active Viewing, Active Listening, Phonological Awareness (Beginning and Ending Sounds)
Explain to children that they are going to watch a video that has lots of words with the letter sound /f/. Tell children the name of the video is Between the Lions "Cliff Hanger and the Fabulous Flying Fish."
Before You Watch
Encourage children to clap when they hear a word with the letter sound /f/.
- Say, The video is called Between the Lions Cliff Hanger and the F-F-F-Fabulous F-F-F-Flying F-F-F-Fish.
As you Watch
Have children listen for the words that have the letter /f/ sound as they watch the video.
- Pause as you come to a word with the letter sound /f/.
- Ask questions such as, What sound do you hear at the beginning of the word fish? (/f/) What sound do you hear at the end of cliff? (/f/)
Play the video again.
- Pause when the Cliff Hanger says a word that has the letter sound /f/.
- Repeat the word while stretching the letter sound /f/. Have children repeat the word with the stretched /f/. (For example, f-f-f-f-abulous.)
After You Watch
Review many of the /f/ words in the video. Have children repeat them after you.
- Encourage children to include /f/ words they know.
- Create a new "Fabulous Fly Adventure" story with children using the new words that begin with the letter sound /f/.
