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MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.3: Demonstrate beginning understanding of phonics and word analysis skills.
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.
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizes that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizes that letters of the alphabet have distinct sound(s) associated with them.
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: Word Sounds
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ELA Focus Skills: Gross Motor Skills, Phonological Awareness (Blending Sounds, Ending Sounds), Vocabulary
Tell children you are going to play a word game with them. Explain that you are going to say a word very slowly and each time they hear a sound, you want them to put their hands on different parts of their body. Say,
- I’m going to say the word sink very slowly. When you hear the first sound in the word sink (/s/), put your hands on your head, like this. (demonstrate)
- When you hear the middle sound in the word sink (/i/), put your hands on your waist, like this. (demonstrate)
- When you hear the last sound in the word sink (/k/), put your hands on your toes, like this. (demonstrate)
- Slowly say each phoneme in the word sink: /s/ (hands on head), /i/ (hands on waist), /k/ (hands on toes).
- Repeat the word sink with children.
Repeat the procedure for the words pig, boat, and sank.
(Adapted from Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines for Four-Year Old Children, Mississippi Department of Education, 2006.)