Rhyming Fun: Hop on Pop

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Ask your students if they can name a rhyming pair. Remind students that rhyming words have the same ending sound. Provide examples if necessary.
• Tell your students you will be reading a book with many rhyming words in it. Ask them to listen carefully and identify as many rhyming pairs as they can.
• Show students the cover of Hop on Pop. Tell students that Dr. Seuss is an author who is famous for his books that are chock full of rhyming words.
• Read Hop on Pop.

Guided Practice

• Tell students that they will be completing a rhyming pair and that they can hop or pop when they come up with a correct rhyming word.
• Have students provide examples of rhyming pairs that they remember from the book.
• When a student comes up with a rhyming word, pop a bubble wrap bubble.
• Tell students that now it's their turn.

Independent working time

• This is where you can guide the students through either jumping on bubble wrap on the floor or using their fingers to pop individual bubbles after providing a rhyming word to complete a rhyming pair.