- All the Water in the World (book)
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2: Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
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:
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/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 7: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8: Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
Word Play: Silly Sentence Story
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ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Dictating Sentences, Phonological Awareness
Display the book All the Water in the World. Turn to the page that begins “That rain that cascaded from clouds . . . .” Read the text aloud, down to the end of the line “and opened into oceans . . . .” As you read, emphasize the beginning sounds of the alliterative words in a phrase. Then say, This author often uses groups of words that begin with the same sound. Ask,
- What sound do you hear at the beginning of the words cascaded and clouds? Yes, the words begin with the /k/ sound.
- What sound do you hear at the beginning of the words meandered and mountains? Yes, those words begin with the /m/ sound.
- What sound do you hear at the beginning of the words wavered and waterfalls? Yes, those words begin with the /w/ sound.
- What sound do you hear at the beginning of the words opened and oceans? Yes, those words begin with the /o/ sound.
Read other alliterative phrases from the book, such as “licks it from lakes,” “hangs hotly,” “drips and drops and drumming,” and “start the stream.” Ask children to identify the beginning sounds. Then challenge children to generate sentences using the alliterative phrases.