- pictures of a star, duck, bear, car, mop, door, book, chair
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.3: Demonstrate beginning understanding of phonics and word analysis skills.
Head Start Outcomes:
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: Ending Sound (/r/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Vocabulary
Play a listening game to help children recognize the /r/ sound at the end of words.
- Ask children to say the word river with you. Say the word again, emphasizing the /r/ sound at the end of the word: river-r-r-r.
- Say, I’m going to show you some pictures. Tell me what you see in each picture. Then tell me if the word ends in the /r/ sound.
- Show children pictures of the following items, one at a time: star, duck, car, bear, mop, door, book, and chair. As you show each picture, ask, What is this? Repeat the word, emphasizing the ending sound. Ask, Do you hear the /r/ sound at the end of the word <star>?