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What Does a Lion Say?And Other Playful Language Games
Between the Lions® Staff
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BETWEEN THE LIONS is funded in part by The Corporation forPublic Broadcasting, a cooperative agreement from the U.S.Department of Education’s Ready To Learn grant, and by theBarksdale Reading Institute. National corporate funding is providedby Chick-fil-A, Inc.
BETWEEN THE LIONS is produced by WGBH Boston, SiriusThinking, Ltd., and Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
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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
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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?
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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
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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
7WHAT DOES A LION SAY?
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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
9WHAT DOES A LION SAY?
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10 WHAT DOES A LION SAY?
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.
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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
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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:
12 WHAT DOES A LION SAY?
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
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ESSENTIAL LITERACY SKILLS
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
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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)
ESSENTIAL LITERACY SKILLS
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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
ESSENTIAL LITERACY SKILLS
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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
ESSENTIAL LITERACY SKILLS
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Language Games
17WHAT DOES A LION SAY?
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� 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
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26Cubs
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