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
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 8: Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
Watch Together: “Doo Wop (short /a/)” (BTL clip)
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ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing and Listening, Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Vocabulary
Invite children to watch a video about the letter “Aa” and the short /a/ sound, Between the Lions “Doo Wop (short a).”
- Play the video through once.
- Replay the video and pause several times so children can see the word ramma-lamma on the screen.
- Ask children to count each letter “Aa” they see in the word ramma-lamma.
- Ask, Can you clap the word parts in that word?
- Invite children to clap as the singers sing the word.
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.
