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What to do
- Hand out a tongue depressor or craft stick to each student. Please draw a smiley face at the end of your stick. Now, turn your stick over and draw a sad face at the end of your stick. Students will be indicating whether words rhyme by either holding up their happy faces or their sad faces, therefore you may want to have them use a specific color to draw their happy faces (e.g., green) and their sad faces (e.g., red). This will help you quickly check student responses as they play the game. Feel free to decorate your own stick ahead of time as a model.
- Today we are going to practice rhyming words. Can anyone tell me what rhyming words are? Elicit responses. Remember, two words rhyme if they end with the same sound. For example, “car” rhymes with “far,” “stop” rhymes with “plop” and “itch” rhymes with “witch.” Can anyone think of a word that rhymes with “mouse”? What about “hide”?
- In this game, I will say two words at a time. If the two words rhyme, hold up your happy face. If the two words do not rhyme, hold up your sad face.
- Let’s do a practice round…
- car – tar
- Check to make sure every student is holding up a happy face. Great!
- Let’s do one more practice round…
- right – wrong
- Check to make sure every student is holding up a sad face. This is a tricky pair because both “right” and “wrong” begin with the sound /r/. If any of your students raise their happy faces instead of their sad faces, explain to them: Remember, two words rhyme if they end with the same sound, not if they begin with the same sound. “Right” and “wrong” both begin with /r/, but they end with different sounds “ite” and “ong.” Can anyone think of a word that rhymes with “right?”
- Let’s begin! Go through the following pairs of rhyming words.
- base – face
- mall – mom
- dad – fad
- book – bath
- tarp – toad
- carp – harp
- snail – pale
- pool – rule
- road – zoo
- leaf – lucky
- tooth – tour
- pet – wet
- soup – squash
- ant – pant
- mail – hale
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