Lesson Plan – Rhyme    

 

Can You Rhyme?

 

        This activity was taken from the book, Phonemic Awareness in Young Children:  A Classroom Curriculum by M. J. Adams, B. Foorman, I. Lundberg, and T. Beeler.  It is published by Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. (1998).

 

Objective: To teach children to depend more strongly on phonological cues generate rhymes.  

Materials: Sample rhyme phrases.  

Activity:  To introduce this game, read several rhyme phrases aloud, emphasizing the rhyming words.  Then, challenge the children to complete each rhyme aloud.  For assessment purposes, it is recommended that you periodically request responses from individuals as opposed to the whole group. The  following are examples of phrases that can be used:

       

A cat wearing a ________(hat).

A mouse that lives in a ________(house).

A moose with a tooth that is ____(loose).

A pig that is dancing a ________(jig).

Some kittens wearing some ___(mittens).

A sheep that is sound ________(asleep).

An owl drying off with a _______(towel).

A bear with long, brown ________(hair).

A bug crawled under the ________(rug).

An ape that is eating a ________(grape).

A goat that is sailing a ________(boat).

A duck that is driving a _______(truck).

A guy who is swatting a _______(fly)

A bee with a hive in the _______(tree)

On the swing, I like to _______(sing).

We drove far in our _______(car)

Hold the candle by the _______(handle).

Smell the rose with your _______(nose).

Write the numbers one to ten with a pencil or a ______(pen).

Dancing, dancing, cross the floor, keep on dancing out the _______(door).

Airplanes fly up in the ________(sky).