Watch Together: “Fred Says: rocket” (BTL clip)

  • word card rocket

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.1.d: Recognize and name some uppercase letters of the alphabet and the lowercase letters in one’s own name.

Head Start Outcomes:

Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
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/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
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.

Watch Together: “Fred Says: rocket” (BTL clip)

ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Letter Recognition, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary

Tell children they are going to watch a short video about the word rocket. Ask children what they know about rockets.

  • Then hold up the word card and ask, What letter does the word rocket begin with?

Play the video Between the Lions “Fred Says: rocket” without pausing.

Then show the video a second time and pause to allow children to point to the letter “Rr.”

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