Knowledge and Skills Statement
Ask students to name two more words that rhyme with the following words.
- play, stay (bay, may, day, pray, tray, slay, okay, hay, way)
- meet, seat (sheet, greet, heat, treat, feet, cheat, beat)
- rain, cane (train, stain, main, gain, pain, lane, plane)
- sing, ring (bring, thing, cling, king, swing, string, wing, fling)
- book, hook (took, look, crook, took, shook)
- crown, down (frown, brown, town, noun, clown, drown)
Other prompts:
- Tell me a word that rhymes with________.
- I am going to say a word. Tell me three more words that rhyme with this word.
A teacher may provide picture prompts if needed since the SE is about producing rhymes. For example, when students see a picture of a cat, they should know to rhyme with the word cat and could say hat, mat, fat, or sat.
Research
Yopp, H., & Yopp, R. (2000). Supporting Phonemic Awareness Development in the Classroom. The Reading Teacher, 54(2), 130-143. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20204888
Summary: Phonological awareness involves being able to recognize and manipulate the sounds within words. This skill is a foundation for understanding the alphabetic principle and reading success. There are several ways to effectively teach phonological awareness to prepare early readers, including: 1) teaching students to recognize and manipulate the sounds of speech, 2) teaching students letter-sound relations, and 3) teaching students to manipulate letter-sounds in print using word-building activities.