MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2: Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
English Language Arts/Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1.d: Recognize and name some uppercase letters of the alphabet and the lowercase letters in one’s own name.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizes that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 7: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
Watch Together: “Get Your Mouth Moving (u)” (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Letter Recognition, Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary
Tell children that they are going to watch the video Between the Lions “Get Your Mouth Moving (u),” about the letter “Uu.”
Show the video clip and ask children to look for the letter “Uu” in the words that appear on the screen.
Replay the video a second time. Pause after the words bump, pump, and jump and ask volunteers to point to the letter “Uu” in each. Ask,
- Can you hear the /u/ sound?
- Can you name other words that have the same /u/ sound?
- Can you name another word that rhymes with bump, pump, and jump? Does your rhyme word have the letter sound /u/?
