Learning to Rhyme

Building academic language

Word

• Read aloud the text and pause to identify and write the rhyming words on the board (e.g., "trains," "planes").
• After you finish reading, ask students to reflect on what happened in the story. Have students turn and talk to share with a partner what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
• Explain that you will now re-read the story, and this time, students should listen for words that rhyme. When they hear a rhyming pair, they should clap their hands.
• Re-read the story and pause when students clap. Note the rhyming word pairs.

Sentence

• Display the Time to Rhyme #1 worksheet and explain that students will be looking at each row and circling or coloring in the rhyming word pairs.
• Go over the words on the worksheet to check student understanding for each vocabulary word.
• Pass out the worksheets to each student to complete independently.

Discourse

• Invite students to join a partner and check their worksheets to compare the rhyming pairs they found.
• Encourage students to practice using the rhyming word pairs in silly sentences with their partner.