- bag
- small objects, some that begin with letter sound /l/
- 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 Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/l/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds)
Play a sound game to help children listen for and recognize the /l/ sound in the beginning of familiar words.
- Display a group of small items that begin with the /l/ sound, such as a letter, a lollipop, and a lemon. Include a few items that do not begin with the /l/ sound such as a button, a hat, and a sock. Name each item.
- Tell children that only things that begin with the /l/ sound belong in the bag. Hold up the lemon and ask children to say what it is. Ask, Does the word lemon begin with the same sound as the word loud? Yes, they both begin with the /l/ sound. Who would like to put the lemon in the bag?
- Ask children to pick up an object, name it, and say whether it belongs in the bag. Continue until all the items have been sorted.