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: "Lions Laughing" (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Letter Sound Recognition
Have children watch a short video clip Between the Lions “Lions Laughing.” Play the video clip without pausing and have children listen for the /l/ sound.
For the next viewing, line the children up in groups of four to mimic the lions in the video. Tell children they will all play one of the lions in the video and laugh along with their lion.
Have the first child in each group be “Leona.” Continue with the other three children in each group. Play the video and have children laugh along with the lions.
Educator Tip: You may want to watch Between the Lions “Lions Laughing” and “Lions Jabber, Jig, and Jog” at the same time so you can review the letters /l/ and /j/ together.
