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Kindergarten Reading & Writing · World 4: Sound Safari · Level 23
First Sounds
Find words that start with the same sound.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 23
- Welcome to Sound Safari! Words are made of sounds. Listen to the start of sun: /s/. Sun starts with /s/.
- Moon starts with /m/. Mouse starts with /m/ too. Moon and mouse start with the same sound!
- Bear starts with /b/. Fish starts with /f/. They start with different sounds.
- Your turn! Say /s/. Now say sun. Feel your mouth make /s/ first.
- Try it with a grown-up! Play I Spy: I spy something that starts with /b/. Take turns!
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- K.F.PA.6.a — Isolate and pronounce initial, final, and then medial sounds in spoken words with three phonemes.