Let’s Stretch Out the Sounds
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What's Inside
Swing along as you stretch out sounds in words. Stretching out words is super fun and you can do it on the run.
This book gives children practice hearing letter sounds and saying words slowly. Those skills help young readers notice how words work and prepare for early word reading. It fits preschool and kindergarten children who are learning to listen for sounds in spoken words.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn Let’s Stretch Out the Sounds into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Letter sounds
- Stretching out sounds in words
- Listening for sounds in spoken words
- Word work
- How words work
- Early reading skills
Discussion Questions
- 1 What does it mean to stretch out the sounds in a word?
- 2 When you say a word slowly, what letter sounds can you hear first, next, and last?
- 3 Can you think of a word you could stretch out together by saying each sound one at a time?
- 4 How does stretching out sounds help when you are learning to read new words?
- 5 Which words from the rhyme have sounds you can hear clearly when you say them slowly?
- 6 Why might it help to listen carefully for letter sounds before you try to read a word?
Words to Learn
- sound
- A sound is something you hear.
- letter
- A letter is a symbol that stands for a sound in a word.
- stretch
- To stretch means to make something longer, like saying a word slowly.
- blend
- To blend means to put sounds together to say a word.
- hear
- To hear means to listen and notice a sound.
- word
- A word is a group of sounds or letters that we say or read.
- reading
- Reading means looking at words and understanding them.
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