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: “Rocket-Doodle-Doo” #2 (BTL clip)
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ELA Focus Skills: Letter Recognition, Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds)
Invite children to watch the Between the Lions video “Rocket-Doodle-Doo” again. Ask, Who remembers a song about a rooster and a robot that has a lot of /r/ words in it? Allow children who remember the song to talk about it. Then say, Let’s watch and listen to the song again. Sing along if you remember the words.
After viewing, ask children to name the /r/ words. (rocket, roof, robot, rooster, rock) You may wish to ask children what /d/ sound words they noted in the song as well. (doodle-doo, did, dance)
