- pictures of a bird, beaver, bee, bear, butterfly, and bunny
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 the Animal (/b/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Letter Recognition, Listening and Speaking, Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Vocabulary
Tell children you are going to give them clues to animals that begin with the /b/ sound. Have them listen to the clues and try to guess what animal you are describing. Say, I’ll give you hints. Try to guess the animal. Show children pictures of the animals to confirm their guesses:
- Say, I’m thinking of an animal that flies in the sky. It has wings. There are many different kinds of this animal. What is it? (bird)
- Say, I’m thinking of an animal that has sharp teeth. It gnaws trees and builds dams. What is it? (beaver)
- Say, I’m thinking of a very small animal that flies. It makes a buz-z-z-z sound. It can sting you. What is it? (bee)
- Say, I’m thinking of a big animal that has fur and sleeps in a den. It growls. We read a book about one that likes to row a boat. What animal is it? (bear)