- picture cards (simple objects)
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.2: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Foundational Skills/
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Attends to the beginning letters and sounds in familiar words.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
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.
Word Play: Listening Game
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Display the picture cards. Talk with children about the letter sounds they hear in the beginning of the words "boom boom." Have them say the words out loud a few times and point out how the words begin with the same sound. Have children look through the picture cards and find another object that begins with that sound.
Give other examples of alliterative words, for example, letters looped or tree top. Emphasize the beginning sounds and have children repeat the words after you.
Play a beginning sound game with children and help them say their own alliterative words. Give children a word from the book (tangled) and help them find a picture or think of a word on their own that has the same beginning sound. (toy) Continue with other sounds to help children listen to beginning sounds.