- pictures of a dam, boat, bird, dock, seashell, duck, and oar
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 (/d/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Vocabulary
Play a listening game to help children recognize the /d/ sound at the beginning of words.
- Ask children to say the word drift with you. Say the word again, emphasizing the /d/ sound at the beginning of the word: d-d-d-d-rift.
- Say, I’m going to show you some pictures. Tell me what you see in each picture. Then tell me if the word begins with the /d/ sound.
- Show children the following pictures, one at a time: door, tugboat, bird, dock, shell, duck, and tire. As you show each picture, ask, What is this? Repeat the word, emphasizing the beginning sound. Ask, Do you hear the /d/ sound at the beginning of the word <dam>?