MA Standards:
English Language Arts/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: Rhyme Time #1
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ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Phonological Awareness (Rhyming), Vocabulary
Play a rhyming game with some words from Vegetable Garden. Say two rhyming words from the book. Ask children to come up with a different word that rhymes with those words. Any real or nonsense word that rhymes is acceptable. Some possible rhyming pairs and responses are:
- Rake/lake (cake, make)
- Seed/weed (need, read)
- Red/head (bed, said)
- Round/mound (pound, sound)
- Shower/flower (tower, power)
Invite children to suggest any two words they know that rhyme. Then let the rest of the group try to think of a third word that rhymes.