Dingo's Echo

Letter sounds, by hearing a sound and finding the letter that makes it · ages 3-6

Open on the projector The sheet to print

1. Warm-up, 5 minutes

I spy with sounds: "I spy something beginning with /m/." Children point and say the object.

2. The game, on the projector

Play the sound, have the class echo it back like the dingo, then a helper taps the letter.

Projector mode is the game with ?projector on the end of its address. It's big and landscape, a win waits for you to press Next, and nothing is saved on the computer: no progress, no animal cards, no login.

3. Away from the screen

Sound sort: a tray of objects for each group to sort by their first sound.

Questions to ask

Can you make that sound too?
Which letter makes that sound?
Can you think of a word that starts with that sound?

Curriculum

AC9EFLY09: recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness)
AC9EFLY11: recognise and name all upper- and lower-case letters (graphs) and know the most common sound that each letter represents
EYLF 5.1: Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
EYLF 5.4: Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work

More detail, and every word it says: the page for grown-ups.