In light of what we have been learning in our literacy class about emergent literacy I thought I would share one activity I have seen used in my student teaching. This is in a kindergarten class at the beginning of the year. As the class is focusing on different letters of the alphabet students with a particular letter in the name get to present their 'star name'. What this means is they have a star with their name written on it. They also have an index card for each letter of their name. They choose classmates to come up and each hold one letter of their name. As they all stand in a row next to each other they spell the name and then say the sound for each letter. Then they clap the number of syllables in the name as they say it again. They think of other words that start with the same letter as the name. This is a great activity for students to get exposure to letter-sound relationships as well as notice beginning sounds and syllables. Below is a picture of some students doing this activity. Their parents have all signed waivers to take pictures at school. The child who's name is shown is not in the picture.
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