- word card drift
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: “Words Beginning with ‘d’” (BTL clip)
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ELA Focus Skills: Letter Recognition, Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Word Recognition
Display the word card drift and say the word aloud. Point to the first letter and ask, What letter does the word drift begin with? Yes, “Dd.” What sound does it make? Yes, /d/. Talk with children about the word. Ask, What does the word drift mean? Does anyone know? How did the little boat drift in the book we just read, Toy Boat?
Then say, Now we are going to watch a short video about other words that begin with the /d/ sound. When you hear a word that begins with the /d/ sound, say it again for me!
Show the video and have children repeat the words drum, doll, dipper, dollar, dog, dime, and dream catcher, emphasizing the /d/ sound.
