Rhyming Bingo
Rhyming Puzzle
Match Up
Rhyming Flash Cards
Rhyming File Folder Game
PVC Phone
Rhyme Time Pocket Chart
Rhyming Rings - Hook words that rhyme together on a metal ring. Include a picture with the word. Children flip through the picture cards and say them into a PVC phone. Example: bag, tag, rag, wag.
Rhyming Books
1. Start the lesson with a guessing game to introduce the concept of rhyming words. Tell the children to close their eyes and try to think of the animal that you’re describing. Give them several hints, ending with a word that the animal’s name rhymes with. For example, you might say, “I’m thinking of an animal with whiskers and a long tail. This animal likes to catch mice. Its name rhymes with the word ‘pat.’ Raise your hand if you know what the animal is.” Another example would be, “I’m thinking of an animal who sleeps through the long winter. This animal is very large, and sometimes it likes to eat honey. Its name rhymes with the word ‘hair.’ Raise your hand if you know what the animal is.” Encourage students to raise their hands and not call out, so that everyone can have time to think. After they guess an animal correctly, stress the rhyming word: “That’s right. ‘Cat’ rhymes with ‘pat.’ Cat…pat.”
2. How do words sound the same? “Rhyming words sound the same. Let’s play a rhyming game!” Then stick one of the picture cards into the pink teacher box (e.g. sun). “I say sun, you say …” Students then take turns to say something that rhymes with the picture card. These can be real or nonsense words as the focus is on rhyme generation.
1. Erase a Rhyme - Draw a picture on a dry erase board, such as grass, sky, tree, flower, and sun. Say a word, such as tower, and have a child come up to erase what rhymes (flower); erase what rhymes with bee (tree); erase what rhymes with fun (sun). Continue until the whole picture is erased.
2. Rhyming Bingo
3. Rhyming Flash Cards
4. Rhyming Basket - Objects are placed in a basket (one object for each child present), and the basket is passed around the circle. As each child gets the basket, I say a word (such as “fizzers”) and they pull out the object that rhymes (“scissors”). You can use any objects, because it doesn’t matter if the rhyming words are real words or nonsense words.
1. Sing Me a Rhyme - If your children have a favorite song that contains rhyming words, such as “This Old Man” or “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” have them dictate the words of the song to you and record them on sentence strips. Sing the song with them, using a pointer to show them how to follow along. (Although they will probably not be reading yet, this exercise will build pre-reading skills as well.) Have them raise their hands when they hear a pair of rhyming words, and circle the words as you go. When you finish singing, read through the circled words to hear how they rhyme.
2. Read a poem or sing a song with rhymes. Children can clap or stand when they hear a rhyming word.
1. A Good Bye Song -
Chop cop lollipop
Get in line porcupine
In awhile crocodile
Give a kiss goldfish
Stay funky little monkey
Good luck Mr. Duck
To your house little mouse
Take care polar bear
Be sweet parakeet
Toodle loo kangaroo
Hit the road little toad
Get the hint peppermint
Shake shake little snake
See you later alligator
Hasta mañana iguana
Bye bye butterfly
Give a hug ladybug
Out the door dinosaur!
1. Rhyming Pictures Snow Ball Fight - All the students get into a circle. Teachers throw the snowballs into the air. The students each get to pick up one snowball and try to find their rhyming partner. Then they lock arms together until everyone has found a partner that rhymes.
When children are already familiar with a rhyming story, hesitate before saying the rhyming word and see if the children can say it before you. This way, they’re using both their memory and their rhyming ability to find the word. A more advanced version of this is to ask them to find a potential rhyming word the first time you read a book. (Example: You read aloud, “He went to the giant red door, but he slipped and fell down on the ______” and the children find the word “floor”
Practice phonics skills with these read-along stories.
Have some of your favorite stories read to you by movie stars.
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4. Show and Tell
Tie it to a learning objective. Ex: Bring something that rhymes with pig. Bring something that rhymes with their name. Bring something that rhymes with red. Bring something that rhymes with fan. Etc....