How I wonder what you are.” During Cleanup: Singing is so easy to fit into your daily schedule, as you can basically break out in song or chant any time of the day and it is so much fun to sing! Before Bed: Singing rhyming songs and rhyming chants is another great way to teach rhyming. You have Successfully Subscribed! Sing Rhyming Songs Together Then bind the pages into a personal rhyming book.Īnother option is that if you don’t want to make a book…you can make a collage with pictures of objects that rhyme with one another. Have your child draw pictures of objects that rhyme or cut out rhyming pictures. You can also have your child create their own Rhyme Book! Create the book with five blank pages. Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? By Nancy White Carlstrom Make Your Own Rhyme Book My Top Favorite Rhyming Books:Ĭhicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. “The hog sat on the _.”Īs you read these rhyming books aloud, you will want to really exaggerate the sound of the rhyming words. You can also ask your child to predict the next word in the rhyming story (they love doing that).
For example you can say, “I hear rhyming words… dog and bog rhyme!” You can practice rhyming with your child by reading stories and poems that use a lot of rhymes aloud together.Īs you read, begin drawing attention to the sounds of the rhyme.
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You can watch this video to get an idea of how to use legos and building blocks for rhyming words: Write beginning letters and sounds on building blocks (or legos) and ending sounds on longer blocks. The game continues with the beanbag being passed back and forth until you and the child can not think of any more rhyming words.Īt that point, whoever is holding the beanbag begins the game with a new word. The child will think of a word that rhymes with hat, say the word aloud and then pass the beanbag back to you. You will then pass a beanbag (or anything else that is soft) to the child. Use Letter Tiles to build rhyming words from the same family by placing the letter tiles for the ending sound in a row and stacking beginning letter tiles to make different words. “Listen to these words – mop, plop, flop, tag.
Say the word hat again, but change the / h/ to / b/. “Tell me all the words you know that rhyme with the word “ hat. You can begin teaching rhyming by asking your child to identify and practice rhymes by manipulating, adding, deleting, or substituting sounds in words. Here are some strategies and activities on how to teach rhyming to your children so that they will have the opportunity to develop strong reading development skills. ( Majsterek, Shorr, & Erion, 2000 Mitchell & Fox, 2001). īecause rhyming skills are significant predictors of children’s later success in learning to read, every effort should be made to give young children the opportunity to develop these rhyming skills. I f your child knows that jig and pig rhyme, then they are focused on the ending ig but also that the j and p are different sounds. They also begin to notice all the individual sounds within each word. When a child learns to rhyme, they learn to focus on how language works. Rhyming is an important first step in the reading development for children.