- small bag
- objects that begin with the /m/ sound; a few objects that begin with other letter sounds
- 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:
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 Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/m/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness
Show children a bag filled with objects that begin with the /m/ sound.
- Ask a child to pull an object from the bag and name the object.
- Repeat the word emphasizing the beginning /m/ sound.
- Ask, What sound is at the beginning of the word <m-m-m-marker>?
- Repeat the process with the other objects.
Take It Further: You may want to include objects that begin with distinctly different sounds, such as a giraffe, camel, and monkey. After children name the object, ask, Does giraffe begin with the /m/ sound?