MA Standards:
English Language Arts/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).
English Language Arts/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:
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: “Word Morph: walnut–wave–wave” (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Letter Recognition, Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Word Recognition
Have children watch the Between the Lions video clip “Word Morph: walnut–wave–wave.” Tell children to listen for the /w/ sound as they watch the video. Say, Raise your hand when you hear a word that begins with the /w/ sound!
Show the video again and have children repeat the words walnut and wave as the words appear.
Take It Further: Help children understand the multiple meanings of the word wave. Say, The word wave can mean “to move your hand back and forth as a signal” (act out the meaning of the word as you say it), or “a curved form of water that breaks along the shore” (show a picture of a wave). Then use each word in a sentence and have children tell you which meaning they think is being used in the sentence. Have children act out the meaning when it is used as a verb and point to the picture of the wave when it is used as a noun.
