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).
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Attends to the beginning letters and sounds in familiar words.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 7: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
Watch Together: “Word Morph: rug–rose–rocket” (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Letter Recognition
Tell children they are going to watch a short video about the letter “Rr.” Show the video Between the Lions “Word Morph: rug–rose–rocket.”
- Replay the video and pause to let children repeat the words and point to the letter “Rr” when it appears on the screen.