- letter card "c" (one for each child)
- color
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 (/k/)
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ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Phonological Awareness
Distribute one letter card to each child. Tell children they will be listening for words that begin with the /k/ sound. Say, Listen for words that begin with the same sound that is at the beginning of the word c-c-c-color.
Say, In this listening game, I am going to say a word. If you hear the /k/ sound at the beginning of the word, hold up your “c” up high and repeat the word. (cob, cactus, green, color, spicy, corn, blue, corn, castanet, grapes, red)
Educator Tip: Guided and independent letter, sound, and word practice continues to take place in center activities. It is helpful to set up the literacy center immediately after the direct instruction and repeat instruction before children work in the literacy center identifying letters.