Phonological Awareness

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Rhyming Words Activity Chart
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  • Recognize word pairs that do or do not rhyme
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    • Rhyming words activity chart
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     Summary Details
    1. Review rhyming words and explain the chart to the children Tell me about words that rhyme.  Pause and discuss responses.  Yes.  Words that rhyme sound the same in the middle and the end.  Pop and top rhyme because pop has /op/ and top has /op/. 

    I have a special chart.  We can match words that rhyme in this chart.
    2. Recognize word pairs that do or do not rhyme

    Here are two pictures.  This is a … (pause and wait for responses) Yes, this is a cake and this is the number three.  I have pictures of words that rhyme with cake or that rhyme with three.  Let’s listen and think about where these pictures should go.  Show the picture of the snake. This is a … (pause and wait for responses).  Does snake rhyme with three or does snake rhyme with cake? 

    Pause and wait for responses.  If children respond correctly, explain why the words rhyme, “Snake has /ake/ and cake has /ake/.  Snake and cake both have /ake/ so they rhyme.” 

    If the children respond incorrectly, explain why the words do not rhyme, “Snake has /ake/ and three has /ee/.  /ake/ and /ee/ are not the same.  They do not sound the same in the middle and the end.  That is why snake and three do not rhyme.”

    3. Find matching words for the other pictures Proceed through the rest of the cards until each original picture has three rhyming cards.  Review why the words rhyme, “Cake, snake, rake, lake all have /ake/.  They sound the same in the middle and the end, so they rhyme.”

    Explain how you can check if these words rhyme by turning over the cards and seeing if the pictures are the same on the back.  We found the words that have ‘ake’ like cake because each one has a picture of a cake on the back.

    Proceed through as many picture cards as you feel necessary.

    Optional:  You may have this activity in a rhyming center.  The self correct feature allows children to attempt to identify rhyming words independently.
    extension activities
    Using common rime units (e.g., /at/, /an/), have children create a set of rhyming words and then determine which words are real words and which are silly (i.e., nonsense) words.  For example, write -at on the board and then ask children to suggest letters to put in front of –at; that might make a word.  Keep a list of all of the words the children generate and then, as a class, identify the real words and the silly words.  For example, children might suggest c, f, r, and z, which would result in the following list:  cat, fat, rat, and zat.  Zat is a silly word, whereas cat, fat, and rat are all real words.
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