- vacuum
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.2: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Head Start Outcomes:
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.
Watch Together: “Fred Says: vacuum” (BTL clip)
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ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Active Listening, Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds, Blending)
Play the video clip Between the Lions “Fred Says: vacuum” for children. Talk about what it means to blend word parts together. Have children blend the word vacuum with you by clapping the word parts slowly, then faster. Then show the video again and have children clap the word with Fred.
Guide children to understand that a vacuum, as Fred implies, is a machine used to clean dirt off of floors and other areas.
