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What Does a Lion Say?And Other Playful Language Games

Between the Lions® Staff

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data What does a lion say? and other playful language games / by the staff of Between the Lions. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-87659-147-5 1. Language arts (Early childhood)--Activity programs. 2. Literary recreations. I. Between the lions (Television program) LB1139.5.L35W49 2010 372.6--dc22 2009048647


INTRODUCTION..................................9

ABOUT THIS BOOK...........................11

Essential Literacy Skills..................................... 12

LANGUAGE GAMES .........................17

26 Cubs ..............................................................18Ads Everywhere .................................................19Alphabet Ventriloquist ........................................20Animal Guessing Game .....................................21The Animals on the Bus.....................................22As Colorful as a Rainbow...................................23Au-Toe-Graph .....................................................24Big and Little Pretending....................................25Big, Bigger, Biggest ...........................................26Cast Party ...........................................................27Chicken Jokes ...................................................28Colors All Around ..............................................29Compound Fun ..................................................30Concentration Session.......................................31Dinner Dream.....................................................32Dreams and Wishes...........................................33Effective Detective..............................................34Environmental ABCs ..........................................35Fantastic Pets .....................................................36Find a Word .......................................................37Follow the Directions .........................................38High in the Sky ..................................................39If This Hat Could Talk .........................................40

Table of Contents

5WHAT DOES A LION SAY?


Imagine a Story! ................................................41Imagine the Impossible .....................................42I’m Not Cute! .....................................................43Jokes and Tongue Twisters ...............................44Just Because .....................................................45Just One Word ..................................................46Just Three Letters .............................................47Let’s Face It! ......................................................48License Plate Lingo ...........................................49The Lost Rock Diaries .......................................50Mail “I Spy” ........................................................51Mail Mosaic .......................................................52Make PB&J the Way I Say ................................53A Marvelous Star ...............................................54Me, the Book .....................................................55Monkey Hear, Monkey Do .................................56Moon Talk ..........................................................57No “And-It-But” ..................................................58On the List, Off the List ......................................59Opposites Attract ..............................................60Pick a New Word ...............................................61Picture Dictionary ..............................................62Pinocchio Knows ..............................................63Poem Pickle ......................................................64Prove It! .............................................................65Read My Face ...................................................66Red and Green ..................................................67Rhinoceros from A to Z .....................................68Rhymes and Fingerplays ..................................69Secret Codes and Tricks ...................................70Silly Rules ..........................................................71Silly Scenarios ...................................................72S/M/L .................................................................73Sound Effects ....................................................74Sporting Game ..................................................75Story Starter ......................................................76“Straighties” and “Curvies” ...............................77Talking Factory ..................................................78A Thousand Words ...........................................79Top-Ten Lists ......................................................80

6 WHAT DOES A LION SAY?


Tricky Chatting ..................................................81The Truly Taxing Tongue-Twister Tournament ...82Two-in-One ........................................................83The Un-do Re-do Challenge .............................84What Does a Lion Say? .....................................85What’s in a Sign? ..............................................86Who Are You? ....................................................87Words into Giggles ............................................88World’s Greatest Author ....................................89

MORE IDEAS! ..................................91

Whenever You Have a Moment, or Two or Three .........................................................92

When You Are Traveling, Near or Far ................94In the Kitchen ....................................................95With a Dictionary ...............................................96

BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS! ...............97

After Reading a Story ......................................117Discover Your Local Library ............................118Teach Your Kids Handwriting ..........................119

INDEXES.........................................121

Index of Literacy Skills .....................................121Index of Games by Age ...................................123Index.................................................................125



Opportunities abound to play with and

practice literacy skills. Whether it is

talking with your kids about what

makes you laugh, walking around the

neighborhood and looking at all the

signs, or reading books, telling jokes

and trying out tongue twisters, it all

adds up to the joy of learning to read

and write!

The best way for kids to learn to read

and write, and to love doing so, is to

use everyday opportunities to

introduce, practice, and play with

these skills. This book is filled with

playful games and ideas that give

kids the skills they need to learn to

read and write. Use them at home, at

school, and when you are on the go.

Remember to emphasize the fun!

The staff of Between the Lions®, an

award-winning PBS KIDS television

series designed to foster children’s

Introduction




literacy skills, developed the games in

this book. The Between the Lions

television program is produced by

WGBH Boston, Sirius Thinking, Ltd.,

and Mississippi Public Broadcasting

and features a lion family living in a

public library. The family includes

parents Theo and Cleo and their

cubs, Lionel and Leona. For more

information about the characters or to

find out when the show airs in your

area, go to pbskids.org/lions.

Now, let the fun (and learning) begin!

After you finish playing the games, check out the ideas in the back of this book for more ways to help children become successful

readers.


Each game has the following

components:

� Age: This is a general guideline. You

know your child’s skills and abilities,

in addition to what he or she

enjoys. Keep in mind that a three-

year-old and a ten-year-old may or

may not enjoy the same game.

� The number of players needed to

play the game: “Players” can be

kids or adults. So if the game

requires two or more players, the

two players can be one kid and

one adult.

� A Great Way to…: Although these

games are designed to be fun for

kids to play, each game also has a

significant educational component.

The skills that each game develops

are listed in the “A Great Way to…”

section. (On the following pages is

a chart that lists and describes the

literacy skills that all kids need to

be successful readers and writers.)

About This Book



ESSENTIAL LITERACY SKILLS

Although all kids develop

at their own rate and in

their own way, every kid

needs to develop the

following essential literacy

skills:


Look for “A great on-the-go

game!” to identify games that are fantastic to play

when you are on a car, bus, or train trip, when you are

waiting in a doctor’soffice, or any time youwant to add an extraelement of fun and

learning to the day!

Oral Language: Listening and Understanding

Listens to others with understanding Listens attentively to stories, poems, and songs Uses active listening and viewing Recognizes environmental sounds Listens to and follows directions Develops varied and complex vocabulary Listens to music Listens to the sounds produced by musical instruments



WHAT DOES A LION SAY?

Oral Language: Speaking and Communicating

Uses language to express actions Identifies common objects and interprets pictures Uses language for conversation, and to communicate information,

experiences, ideas, thoughts, feelings, opinions, needs, wants, and questions

Retells a familiar story Uses language to recall a sequence of events Develops and uses new vocabulary Uses positional words in proper context Speaks in simple sentences

Book Appreciation and Knowledge

Listens to and discusses stories (realistic and fantasy) Listens to and discusses nonfiction and concept books Learns how to handle, care for, and turn the pages of a book Selects theme-related books to “read” alone or with other children Draws pictures based on a story Joins in reading of familiar/predictable/pattern books Seeks information from nonfiction texts

13


Story Comprehension

Understands the literal meaning of a story Predicts an outcome and/or what will happen next in a story Connects information from a story to life experiences Differentiates reality from fantasy Interprets illustrations Develops awareness of cause and effect Uses own experiences to understand characters’ feeling and

motivations Retells or acts out stories in dramatic play Discusses story elements (character, setting, plot) Compares and contrasts characters, settings, and events Understands that stories have a beginning, middle, and end

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

Listens to and identifies sounds in words (phonemes) Listens to rhyming words Recognizes rhyming words Generates rhyming words Understands that different words begin with the same sound

(alliteration) Distinguishes words in a sentence Listens to and distinguishes syllables in words by clapping, stomping,

or finger tapping Listens to and begins to notice beginning sounds in words Begins to notice ending sounds in words Identifies initial sound in words Segments, blends, and deletes syllables in compound words Listens to and begins to blend beginning and ending sounds in

words (onset and rime) Listens to and begins to blend 3- and 4-phoneme words Begins to become familiar with onomatopoeia (words that have a

sound that imitates or suggests its meaning, such as quack, hiss, or woof)




Concepts of Print

Understands that a book has a title, author, and illustrator Identifies book author and illustrator Locates the title of a book Understands that English is read from left to right Understands that English is read from top to bottom Holds a book correctly (right side up) Recognizes local environmental print Understands that print conveys meaning Recognizes the association between spoken and written word Recognizes that letters are grouped to form words Recognizes that words are separated by spaces Recognizes familiar words Understands the different functions of forms of print, such as

signs, letters, lists, menus, and messages


WHAT DOES A LION SAY? 15


Alphabet Knowledge and Letter Recognition

Begins to recognize letters Recognizes first name in print Understands that the alphabet is made up of letters that each

have a different name Distinguishes letter shapes (straight line, curvy line, slanted line, and

so on) Associates names of letters with their shapes Notices the beginning letters in familiar words Identifies the first letter in a word Associates names of letters with their sounds

Beginning Writing

Experiments with a variety of writing tools and materials Dictates stories or experiences Represents stories, ideas, and experiences through scribbles,

shapes, drawing Writes for many purposes (signs, labels, stories, messages) Attempts to write name




Language Games



� Pretend you’re Cleo and Theo with

26 cubs instead of just two! You

need to give each cub a name that

begins with a different letter of the

alphabet.

� Using the 26 letters of the

alphabet, think of a name for each

cub. You will end up with a list of

26 different names. Some letters,

like X and Y, are really tough so

we’ll get you started—Xavier, Yogi,

Yshande.

A great on-the-go game!

For Ages 5–95

For 1 or more

players

A Great Way to…

begin to recognize

letters and

associate names of

letters with their

sounds


26Cubs


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