Secret Word

From Hap Palmer

Secret Word
4 minK1stReading & Writing (ELA)
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Summary

A sounds-and-letters song from Hap Palmer. Children listen for the sounds inside spoken words and blend them together — building the phonemic awareness that reading is built on.

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Teaching resources

Discussion questions

Discussion

This song plays with letters and sounds.

  1. What letters or sounds did you hear in the song?
  2. Can you think of another word that starts the same way?
  3. What word from the song can you spell out loud?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: sound, blend, word, beginning sound.

Try it: Sing along, then say a word slowly, sound by sound, and blend it back together.