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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:
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizes that letters of the alphabet have distinct sound(s) associated with them.
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Attends to the beginning letters and sounds in familiar words.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8: Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
Recite Together: “Zoom, Zoom, Zoom”
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ELA Focus Skills: Gross Motor Skills, Phonological Awareness, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Tell children they are going to read a chant with you that has the word zoom in it.
- Ask, What letter sound do you hear at the beginning of the word zoom? (/z/)
- Then ask, Can you show me how to zoom around?
Recite “Zoom, Zoom, Zoom” with the movements once before having children join in. Then have children chant and act out the movements along with you the second time.
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
Zoom, zoom, zoom, (rub hands upward)
I’m going to the moon. (zoom hands up)
If you want to take a trip,
Climb aboard my rocket ship. (climb imaginary ladder)
Zoom, zoom, zoom, (rub hands upward)
I’m going to the moon. (zoom hands up)
Adaptation: Simplify for younger children by saying a line and showing the movement to one child at a time.