Level 0: Repeating Sounds

Talking

Level 0 Activities help a child develop an “ear” for the spoken language as one vocalizes a variety of sounds. Surrounded with oral talk, while actively engaged in a wide variety of activities, sets the very early foundational building block for reading & writing.

Early Literacy Foundational Skills

• Oral Communication

  • listen and understand that verbal interactions is one method of communicating thoughts, ideas, whats, needs, etc.

• Sentence Meaning

  • listen and understand meaning of a sentence

• Word Meaning

  • listen and understand meaning of a specific word

Repeating Sounds

GOAL: Daily face-to-face interactions through a wide variety of activities are the KEY.

MATERIALS:

• none (this is founded on actual activities being done in real time)

REPEATING SOUNDS

Repeating Sounds is similar to Parrot Talking. This may either begin with the child verbalizing various sounds or with the adult initiating the sounds. The key difference, is that the sounds are to be repeated by the adult, allowing the child to hear the same sound multiple times.

The goal is for the young child to repeat the sound they are hearing. Very young children may watch intently to the face and mouth as the sound is being repeated.

EXAMPLE:

Adult - “Mama, Mama, Mama.” An action to help support word association would be to point to the individual who is “mama”.

Young Child - “Mama”

HELPFUL TIPS:

• Always model first until the child is comfortable with this activity.