Beginning Sounds
G1: First Things First
Identify and practice listening to the beginning sound in one-syllable words, focusing on one sound (phoneme) at a time.
G2: Picture Piles
Sort picture cards into piles by their beginning sounds. Now that your child has learned some of the starting sounds, she will practice differentiating between multiple beginning sounds.
G3: Mark the Misfit
Look at five pictures and pick out the one that begins with a different sound.
G4: Find the Hidden Word
Remove the first sound from a word to find the “hidden” word that remains, with picture cards as clues.
G5: Say the Hidden Word
Remove the first sound from a word to find the “hidden” word that remains, but with no picture clues.
G6: Sound Chop Bingo
Use the game of Bingo to identify the beginning sound that has been “chopped” off of a word.
1. Overview
In the Word Families module, your child learned to synthesize beginning sounds and word stems to make words. In this module, your child will start analyzing one-syllable words by identifying, “chopping off,” and isolating their initial phonemes (sounds).
2. Prerequisites
Here are a few things parents and teachers must do before teaching this section (and the following sections) to their children or students:
- Be sure that you are pronouncing the individual sounds (phonemes) correctly. Start with the consonant sounds, because that’s what you’ll use in the Beginning Sounds activities.
- Use the right child-appropriate terminology. When teaching children, explain that lower-case letters are “the pictures of what the sounds of the alphabet look like when we write them or see them printed in a book.”
- Always have a copy of the written sound (the lower-case letter) for the beginning (onset) of the word in front of the child while doing these activities. For example, you will put out a d card when playing a game that focuses on the word duck. This will draw the child’s attention to the written sound while you pronounce it in the word.
3. Beginning Sounds Activities
- G1: First Things First – Identify and practice listening to the beginning sound in one-syllable words, focusing on one sound (phoneme) at a time.
- G2: Picture Piles – Sort picture cards into piles by their beginning sounds. Now that your child has learned some of the starting sounds, she will practice differentiating between multiple beginning sounds.
- G3: Mark the Misfit – Look at five pictures and pick out the one that begins with a different sound.
- G4: Find the Hidden Word – Remove the first sound from a word to find the “hidden” word that remains, with picture cards as clues.
- G5: Say the Hidden Word – Remove the first sound from a word to find the “hidden” word that remains, but with no picture clues.
- G6: Sound Chop Bingo – Use the game of Bingo to identify the beginning sound that has been “chopped” off of a word.
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El Salvador
What is “Beginning sound”? I need the definition please. Thank you.
ADMIN – Hello. A “beginning sound” is simply a phoneme, or a basic, distinct unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another (Examples of phonemes: the sounds of the letters P and B in the words “pat” and “bat”). In other words, a phoneme is the smallest unit of speech.