Young scholars create personalized place mats as they learn about initial sounds. Using construction paper, they stamp their names using letter stamps. Scholars examine print resources and cut out pictures with the same initial sound as their name, gluing them to the placemat.

Concepts

initial sounds, phonemes, phonemic awareness, phonics, letter-sound correspondence, graphemes

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Additional Tags

phoneme, initial sound, letter-sound correspondence, english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Substitute stamps with printing their names

Classroom Considerations

•  Requires construction paper, scissors, glue, and print resources—magazines, graphics, newspapers, etc.
  

Pros

• It comes with two extension and adaptation ideas

Cons

• None

Common Core

RF.K.3.a