- letter card “Oo”
- beginning
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- sound
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 Letters Together: Beginning Sound (/o/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds), Fine Motor Skills
Say the following list of words and ask children whether they hear the /o/ sound. Ask, Can you make the /o/ sound? Then say, I am going to say some words. Listen carefully to the beginning sound of each word. Do you hear an /o/ sound? If so, stand up and reach as high as you can and say “O-o-o-h yes” in a high voice. If you do not hear the /o/ sound, crouch down as low to the ground as you can and say “N-o-o-o” in a low voice.
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