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:
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.
Word Play: Alliteration (/w/) #2
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds, Alliteration), Vocabulary
Have children generate alliterative sentences (sentences with words beginning with the same letter sound). First, give children an example. Say, Listen as I say this sentence:
We wonder why worms wiggle.
Ask, What sound do you hear at the beginning of each word in the sentence? That’s right, it’s the /w/ sound. Have children repeat the sentence with you, then ask, Can you say a sentence of your own using words that begin with the /w/ sound? As children generate sentences, write them on chart paper. Invite everyone to repeat the sentences as you read and point to each word slowly.
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.