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.
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 #3
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ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Phonological Awareness (Rhyme), Vocabulary
Tell children they are going to play a rhyming game using some of the rhyme words in the story Bee-bim Bop. Explain that you are going to say pairs of words. One of the words will be bop and children have to decide whether the second word rhymes with bop or not. Say, If the word rhymes, shout out “Bee-bim bop,” but if it does not rhyme then just shake your head “no.”
- Model the procedure with the words bop and pop. Encourage children to shout “Bee-bim bop!”
- Continue playing the game, selecting from the following rhyming word pairs from the book: bop/shop, bop/chop, bop/flop, bop/mop, bop/hop, bop/top. Mix it up with word pairs that do not rhyme, such as bop/car, bop/bat, bop/mom, and bop/eggs.