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.
Word Play: Guess My Word (/d/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Sorting and Classifying
Say, I’m thinking of words that start with the /d/ sound. I will give you hints. See if you can guess my word. Then say,
- I’m thinking of an animal that begins with the /d/ sound. It likes to swim and says, “Quack!” What is it? Yes, duck begins with the /d/ sound and a duck swims and says “Quack!”
- I’m thinking of a place that is hot and has a lot of sand. Camels and cactus live there. It begins with the /d/ sound. What is it? (desert)
- I’m thinking of a word that begins with the /d/ sound and means the opposite of up. What is it? (down)
- I’m thinking of a toy that begins with the /d/ sound. It looks like a real baby and you can play with it in the Pretend Center. What is it? (doll)
- I’m thinking of a coin, a kind of money. It’s not a penny or a nickel. It is worth 10 cents and begins with the /d/ sound. What is it? (dime)
- I’m thinking of a word that begins with the /d/ sound and means the opposite of light. What is it? (dark)
Invite children to think of clues for more /d/ words for the group to guess.