- word card river
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.
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Beginning Sound /r/
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ELA Focus Skills: Letter Recognition, Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Word Recognition
Display the word card river. Say the word aloud. Point to the first letter in the word and ask, What letter does river begin with? Yes, “Rr.” What sound do you hear at the beginning of the word river? Yes, the /r/ sound.
- Say, I’m going to say some words. Most of the words will begin with the /r/ sound. Some will not. Raise your hand if you hear a word that begins with the /r/ sound. Listen.
- Emphasize the beginning sound as you say the words raining, wind, rocking, row, dry, hear, boat, roar, scuttle, and clumsy.
- Help children who did not raise their hand when you say a word that begins with the /r/ sound. Say each word again, stopping after each word that does not begin with /r/ to talk about it.
English Language Learners: If children are having trouble with the /r/ sound, partner them with native English speakers and have them practice together saying the words row, run, and ran.