- chart paper
- marker
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills: RF.PK.MA.2.a With guidance and support, recognize and produce rhyming words (e.g., identify words that rhyme with /cat/ such as /bat/ and /sat/).
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Phonological Awareness Identifies and discriminates between sounds and phonemes in language, such as attention to beginning and ending sounds of words and recognition that different words begin or end with the same sound.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8 Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
Word Play: Rhyming Words #5
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Rhyme), Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Before gathering children, write the repeating lines from The Three Little Pigs on chart paper.
Display the chart so children can easily view it. Recite the repeating lines aloud. Point to the words as you say,
- The words in and chin rhyme. They have the same sound at the end, /in/. Have children repeat the words with you. Exaggerate the word ending: i-i-i-n-n-n, chi-i-i-n-n-n.
- I’m thinking of another word that rhymes with in. This word means to be the first to cross the finish line in a race. Do you know what word I am thinking of? (win)
- Can you think of another word that rhymes with in and win but starts with the /p/ sound? (pin)
- Have children generate words that rhyme with other words from the story, for example pig. (jig, fig, wig, big, dig, rig, zig) Accept made up words. (hig, lig, tig)
- Repeat using the word hair. Let children list as many rhyming words as possible.