Lesson
Plan – Rhyme
Word Rhyming
This activity was taken from the book, Phonemic Awareness in Young
Children: A Classroom Curriculum
by M. J. Adams, B. Fooorman, I. Lundberg, and T. Beeler.
It is published by Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co (1998).
Objective:
To evoke the realization that almost any word can be rhymed—not just
those in other people's poems.
Materials:
List of words to be rhymed.
Activity:
In this game, you produce a word to be rhymed (e.g.,
cat).
Next, signal to the children to produce a rhyming word.
You can increase the game's complexity by additionally challenging the
children to suggest a second word that is meaningfully related to your clue word
as well as a rhyme for that word. Once
the game is familiar, individual children may be invited to respond and to
choose the next word to be rhymed. Examples
include the following:
cat -
hat dog
- ?
car -
far
truck -
?
mouse -
house
rat -
?
bag -
rag sack
- ?
chair -
hair sofa
- ?
talk -
walk shout -
?
rose -
hose
flower -
?
book -
hook
read -
?
face -
lace
smile -
?
bed -
red
night -
?
Note:
Do not expect children to play this game as an adult would.
Many of their rhymes will be nonsense words, which is fine because the
purpose of exercising rhymes in the first place is to cause students to attend
to the sounds of language. Similarly,
many of their associative responses may seem, at best, barely related to the
clue word; again, this is fine. The
purpose of the game is to demonstrate that almost any word can be rhymed.
Massachusetts
English Language Arts Curriculum Framework Connection
7.2: Recognize and produce rhyming words.