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:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
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 Game #2
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ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Phonological Awareness (Rhyme), Vocabulary
Tell children they are going to play a rhyming game. Explain that you are going to say pairs of words. One of the words will be seed. Explain that children have to decide whether the second word you say rhymes with seed or not. Say, If the word rhymes, give me a thumbs-up. If it does not rhyme then give me a thumbs-down.
- Model the procedure with the words seed and weed. Encourage children to each give a thumbs-up.
Continue playing the game, selecting from the following rhyming word pairs: seed/bead, seed/lead, seed/need. Mix it up with word pairs that do not rhyme, such as seed/fruit, seed/root, and seed/leaf.