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📖 Kindergarten · ELARF.K.2dUnit 2: Letters & sounds, part 1

Hearing the first sound

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🎯 Objective: Students isolate the first sound in spoken words.

Lesson outline

  1. “I spy something that starts with /s/.”
  2. Model stretching the first sound.
  3. Picture sort by first sound.
  4. Exit: first sound of three words.

Lesson 3 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RF.K.2d

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Kindergarten — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Name upper- and lowercase letters
  • Say the most common sound of each consonant
  • Hear the first sound in a word

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Phonological awareness📚 All Kindergarten skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Letters & sounds, part 1”

  1. Letters m, s, t
  2. Letters a, p, c
  3. Hearing the first sound
  4. Letters i, n, f, b
  5. Uppercase and lowercase partners
  6. Letters o, g, d, h

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