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.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing: Copies, traces, or independently writes letters or words.
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: “Words Beginning with ‘h’” (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Phonological Awareness, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Before playing the Between the Lions “Words Beginning with 'h'" video, ask children to say the word hill.
- Review with children, The word hill begins with the /h/ sound. Repeat the word, emphasizing the beginning /h/ sound. Ask children to name other words that begin with /h/ sound.
- Then tell children they are going to watch a short video about words that begin with the letter sound /h/.
After watching the video clip ask children to name a word from the clip that begins with the /h/ sound.
- Play the video again and have children repeat the /h/ words hat, hay, horse, and hog.
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.
