Targeted Skill: Syllable Segmentation & Counting

CCSS.ELA.RF.K.2.B: Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.

Climate Change Connection

Composting is a wonderful way to teach students about recycling organic materials like food scraps and yard waste to create nutrient-rich soil, which helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. This beginning sound activity can serve as a companion to a unit of study on composting or as an extension activity after watching or reading about composting and climate change. Check out these resources about composting:

• Composting: A Treat for Mother Earth
• A Peek into Composting
• Rumble in the Jumble
• Scraps into Soil

Teaching Tips

• These activity sheets can be completed independently during whole group or center work or as a small group activity with the teacher.
• Words and pictures can be changed out to focus on other skills, such as rhyme or phoneme manipulation.
• Teacher should preview the words with students to avoid confusion.
• Check out the companion activity Composting Beginning Sounds.

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Authors

Angelique Hammack

Elizabeth Ward

Scientist Reviewer

Archibong Akpan, PhD

Image Resources

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