The first sound you hear: Pre-K reading & writing
Onset and rime; the first sound in a word. A free Pre-K lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: onset and rime; the first sound in a word.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: what do you already know about the first sound you hear?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (8 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: the first sound you hear.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner the idea in their own words.
Practise (7 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Play: The s sound (https://peabody.kids/practice/sound/s)
- Play: The m sound (https://peabody.kids/practice/sound/m)
- Learn: Words that start with B (https://peabody.kids/words-that-start-with/b)
Exit ticket (3 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about the first sound you hear, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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