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 Game #4
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Generating Rhyming Words)
Play a rhyming game with some words from Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Say two rhyming words. Ask children to think of another word that rhymes with the pair or words.
- stream/dream (beam, steam, cream, seam)
- be/family (sea, tea, we, key, tree)
- through/crew (knew, new, blue, do, you)
- might/sight (night, right, tight, bite, light)
- find/bind (kind, blind, mind, grind)
- munch/bunch (lunch, crunch)
- shore/roar (door, store, floor, more)
- dry/by (sky, try, eye, I, why, cry)
- go/row (bow, toe, sow, hoe, dough, throw)
Then invite children to suggest any two words they know that rhyme. Let the rest of the group try to think of a third word that rhymes with them.