Lesson · Grade 1 · English Language Arts
Letters Stand for Sounds
- Grade 1
- English Language Arts
- 47 s
- British Columbia
- BC1-EN-10
The word "bus" appears as three plain letters. Then each letter lights up in its own colour, with a dot under it and a speech bubble of sound waves over it, as the voice gives its sound: buh, uh, sss. The sounds are said in order and joined together, so the word says "bus", a yellow bus drives in, and the video ends on the recap "Letters stand for sounds."
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In one sentence
The question this lesson answers
Here is a word with three letters: one, two, three.
What does this little word say?
Transcript
What the lesson says
Here is a word with three letters: one, two, three.
What does this little word say?
Letters stand for the sounds we say.
The first letter, b, stands for buh.
The next letter, u, stands for uh.
The last letter, s, stands for sss.
Say the sounds in order: buh, uh, sss.
Put the sounds together, and they say bus!
Look, here comes a big yellow bus!
Remember, letters stand for the sounds we say.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 1
English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: concepts of printBC1-EN-10
Next: How print works: left to right, word by word, with spaces between words
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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