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With teacher assistance, respond to prompts about the sound associated with a specific letter, especially the first letter of his/her name (e.g., “Your name starts with the letter ‘m’. Can you remember the sound that this letter makes?”). With teacher assistance, identify the sound of the beginning letter of a word (e.g., “What letter makes the sound you hear at the beginning of the word ‘snake’?”). With teacher assistance, identify examples of alliteration (e.g., saying that the words “big blue bouncing ball” all begin with the /b/ sound).