Beginning Sounds | Beginning Sounds Song | Word Play | Jack Hartmann

This Beginning Sounds Song really makes developing phonological awareness fun and is great exercise too. In this educational song, your children follow my movements, say the action word and then say the beginning sound of each word. I say the word and the beginning sound four times so children can really hear the word and its beginning sound. The song is designed so by saying the action word and beginning sound several times, children have adequate time to freely do the movements. Phonemic awareness is the ability to perceive individual sounds in spoken language. It is this awareness that makes learning to read with phonics fun and easy. An essential part of learning to read is hearing the beginning sounds in words. This skill is essential to meeting the Common Core and national standards in language arts. I wrote the song with all the action words so children can really be active as they learn and have fun moving together. This is a great song for having fun with words. The...