- color word cards (written in corresponding color: black, blue, brown, green, orange, purple, red, yellow, white)
- color circles (black, blue, brown, green, orange, purple, red, yellow, white)
- color
- match
MA Standards:
Language/L.PK.MA.5.a: Demonstrate understanding of concepts by sorting common objects into categories (e.g., sort objects by color, shape, or texture).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 4: Engage in play experiences that involve naming and sorting common words into various classifications using general and specific language.
Word Play: Match Colors and Words
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ELA Focus Skills: Sorting, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Mix up the circle colors and place them in a pile. Hold up the word card purple and ask children to read it. Say, This word says “purple.” The letters are written in the color purple. Let's find the matching color circle.
- Have a volunteer hold up the purple circle.
- Place the color card and the color circle together.
Continue having children take turns matching the cards and circles together. Encourage them to read the word card as they make the match. Explain that to help them read the color, they can look at the color used to write the word.