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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: Beginning Sound (/i/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds)
Review the letter sound /i/ with children. Ask them to listen carefully as you say a word. Say, If the word begins with the letter sound /i/, get up and dance! You may want to begin with words such as inchworm, box, instrument, and happy.
English Language Learners: If English Language Learners are having trouble with the /i/ sound, partner them with native English speakers and have them practice together saying the words inside, idea, and into.