MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Logic and Reasoning/ Reasoning and Problem Solving: Uses past knowledge to build new knowledge.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 5: Listen to and use formal and informal language.
Word Play: Who Knows My Word?
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Review the letter sound /u/ by playing a listening game.
Explain to children that you want them to guess a word you are thinking of. Say, I will give you some clues to help you guess the word that I am thinking of. Tell them that each word that you are thinking of begins with the letter “Uu.” Begin with these examples:
- You hold me up when you are outside in the rain. I help to keep you dry. If you turn me upside down, I look like a letter “Uu.” What am I? (umbrella)
- I am the opposite of down. You throw a ball this way when you throw it in the air. You sit down but you stand . What word am I? (up)
- I am a family member. I am a man. I am your mom or dad’s brother. What am I? (uncle)