- chart paper
- marker
MA Standards:
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).
Language: L.PK.MA.5 With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances of word meanings.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 7 Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8 Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
Watch Together: “Play with Words: ‘butterfly’” (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Compound Words, Concepts of Print, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary, Word Recognition
Before You Watch
Invite children to watch the Between the Lions video “Play With Words: ‘butterfly’.” Tell them that Arty Smartypants is a character who likes to dance and to play with words.
Explain that in this video Arty Smartypants plays with the word butterfly. Have children watch for what Arty Smartypants does to the word butterfly in the video.
As You Watch
Show the video and have children say the words butterfly, butter, and fly with Arty Smartypants.
After You Watch
Use the video to introduce the concept of compound words.
- Ask, What did Arty Smartypants do to the word butterfly? (broke it into two words). Say, The word butterfly is made up of two words put together to mean one thing. This kind of word is a compound word.
- Say, Sometimes, you can understand what a compound word means by figuring out what each part means.
On chart paper, write the line from Building a House: “A bricklayer builds a fireplace and a chimney too.”
- Say, Which words in the sentence do you think are compound words, or words made of two words? Circle the two words in the words bricklayer and fireplace. Say, A bricklayer is a person who lays, or puts down, bricks. Say, A fireplace is a place where you can make a fire.
- Challenge children to tell what these other compound words mean: football, haircut, bedtime, and storyteller.
