- loud
- rhyme
- soft
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/).
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions/PS4.B: Apply their understanding in their play of how to change volume and pitch of some sounds.
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: Find the Rhyme
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ELA Focus Skills: Fine Motor Skills, Phonological Awareness, Speaking and Listening
Tell children you are going to play a rhyming game with them.
- Explain that you are going to say two words and if the words rhyme (have the same ending sound) then clap loudly.
- If the two words do not rhyme then clap a soft clap.
- Demonstrate with nut and napkin. Continue with other word pairs. For example: quail/quack, clap/nap, quit/hit; noise/boys, quiet/night
Educator Tip: Guided and independent letter, sound, and word practice continues to take place in center activities.It is helpful to set up the literacy center immediately after the direct instruction and repeat instruction before children work in the literacy center identifying letters.