Lexile Level: 520
Learning Activity:
Children will be given a template of a zebra with no stripes after the first reading of the story. We will practice producing the phoneme /z/ together as a group. The next time the librarian reads the story, the kids will add a stripe (magic marker) to their zebra every time they hear the /z/ sound. Next we will take several common words such as pig, tag, sip, and as a group, pronounce these words with a z as the first letter. This will introduce rhyming words. We could extend the activity to another story that features the letter z. At the end of the story, we can all count our stripes and share how many we had.
Learning Standard: Arizona Learning Standard, Kindergarten, English Language Arts—
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
a. Identify and produce sounds (phonemes) in a spoken word.
b. Recognize and produce rhyming words
Learning Goal: Children will color a stripe on their paper zebra every time they hear the /z/ sound during the reading of Zebra on the Go.
Learning Objective: Children will demonstrate phonemic awareness by coloring a stripe on their paper zebra every time they hear a /z/ during the reading of the story.
Learning Outcome: Children will pronounce the phoneme /z/, and identify the phoneme /z/ aurally, and demonstrate their awareness by coloring a stripe on their zebra every time they hear the phoneme /z/.
