- bag
- small objects (some that begin with the letter sound /i/)
- instrument
- 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 (/i/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Beginning Sounds)
Show children the bag filled with objects. Ask a child to pull an object from the bag and name it. Repeat the word, emphasizing the beginning sound. Ask, What sound does the word instrument begin with? Guide children to respond with the letter sound /i/. Talk about the different /i/ sounds with children. Repeat the process with the other objects.
You may want to challenge children and include objects that begin with letter sounds they have learned in previous weeks. (/c/, /j/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /o/, /p/, /q/, /r/, /s/, /y/)