- high
- low
- pitch
- rhyme
- sound
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: “Bear Snores On”
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Play a rhyming game with children using the words from Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson.
Tell children you are going to say two words (see below) and that you want them to decide whether or not the words rhyme. Review with children that words rhyme when they have the same sound at the end of the word.
Say, If the words rhyme, make a high pitch sound with your voice and stand up high on your tip toes. If the words do not rhyme, make a low pitch sound with your voice and crouch down low to the ground. Practice one round with children before beginning.
You may want to use word pairs, such as these:
bee/ham
snore/bat
light/tight
growl/howl
freeze/sneeze
bark/meet
top/pop
hare/bear