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: Rhyme Time #2
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ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening and Speaking, Phonological Awareness (Rhyme)
Tell children that you are going to say three words that are in the story, Who Sank the Boat? Say, Two of the words are rhyme words and one is not a rhyme word. Explain that you will say all three words once, and the second time you say the words you want them to clap when they hear the word that is not a rhyme word.
- Demonstrate by using the words sit, knit, won.
- Slowly say the three words as you emphasize the rhyme sound.
- Say, I’ll say the words again and you clap on the word that does not rhyme.
- Repeat the words slowly, and then ask, Which word doesn’t rhyme? (won)
- Repeat the process for the words weight, late, sheep; in, cow, din; donkey, butter, flutter.
- Encourage children to suggest sets of words.