Lesson Plan
Football Word Families
Categorize words by their ending sounds using a fun-filled football theme. Your students will complete various word sorts and write down words to emphasize the principles of rhyming.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify and produce words that rhyme.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Have students stand in a circle, showing them a football. Instruct them to clap out the two syllables foot-ball to gain a better phonological understanding of the word.
- Encourage all students to put both their arms out in front of them with their palms facing up towards the sky.
- Tell them to catch the ball with their hands and bring the football towards their body.
- Go around the circle, allowing every student to catch the ball once. Ask them to call out a word that rhymes with football when they catch the ball.
- Now, tell students that since they listed some words that rhyme with football, they are going to continue learning about words that rhyme, or words that have the same ending sound.