- listen
- rhyme
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 Words #4
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ELA Focus Skills: Listening Phonological Awareness (Rhyme)
Tell children you are going to play a rhyming game with them. Say, I’m going to say two words. Listen to the two words. If the words sound the same at the end, clap loudly two times. If they don’t have the same sound at the end, clap softly. After you finish saying the pairs of words, ask, What do we call words that have the same sound at the end of the word?
howl/growl
rattle/meow
bear/hare
dark/spark
bat/cat
hear/listen
sneeze/freeze