- word card apple
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.2: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation: Follows simple rules, routines, and directions.
Literacy Knowledge/Phonological Awareness: Identifies and discriminates between separate syllables in words.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8: Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness
Word Play: Match Syllables
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Segmenting), Vocabulary
Have children practice counting and clapping syllables. Hold up the apple word card. Ask a volunteer to identify the word. Repeat the word and clap the syllables as you do: ap-ple. Then ask,
- How many word parts are in the word apple? Clap it again for children as many times as needed until they hear the two parts.
- Look around the room for other two-part words. Demonstrate some words that do not have two parts, such as the word door. Point to the door and say, Does door have two word parts? Let’s clap it together to find out. Elicit that the word door has only one part.
Invite children to take turns clapping their names and then finding objects with the same number of word parts.
Adaptation: Simplify for very young children. Have them clap their names; then give them a choice between two words: one with the same number of claps, or one with a different number of claps.