Florida Center for Reading Research
Rhyme Pie
Being able to recognize rhyming words is a step closer to understanding the phonemic blends that are necessary for building early reading skills. Little learners use the provided picture cards to make a rhyming pie. They glue rhyming...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Closed Sort
A rhyming activity challenges scholars to sort picture cards according to their rhyme. Four picture cards line up across the top of a pocket chart. Learners take turns choosing from a face-down stack of picture cards and sort them...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Memory Match
Young scholars play a memory-matching game to practice recognizing rhyming words and sounds. With picture cards, they flip over two cards and say the pictures' names. If the pair make a rhyming match, the learner keeps the cards. The...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Sentence Segmentation, Nursery Rhymes
What makes a complete sentence? Words, of course! As your budding readers understand this relationship, guide them through this nursery rhyme activity. Scholars examine pictures of 10 familiar rhymes, mentally counting the words in the...
Curated OER
Rhyming Picture Cards
In this rhyming sounds learning exercise, students match six rhyming picture cards. Rhymes include back/pack, glad/sad, and bag/flag.
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Rhyming Picture Cards
In this rhyming sounds worksheet, students match six rhyming picture cards. Rhymes include saw/draw, house/mouse, and tree/bee.
National Council of Teachers of English
Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme
Young scholars write rhyming poems using rebus. With pictures instead of words, authors create original work about things they love.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyming Game
Scholars practice their rhyming skills with a game. Players roll dice to move along the board game, stopping to rhyme words and find a match.
Curated OER
Rhyming Picture Cards
In this sounds worksheet, students match six pictures by grouping the rhyming ones together. Rhymes include book/cook/hook and horn/corn/thorn.
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Rhyming Picture Cards
In this sounds worksheet, students match six pictures by grouping the rhyming ones together. Rhymes include moon/balloon/spoon and car/jar/star.
Curated OER
Rhyming Picture Cards
In this sounds worksheet, students match six pictures by pairing the rhyming ones together. Rhymes include ham/jam, can/van, and cap/map.
Curated OER
Rhyming Picture Cards
In this sounds learning exercise, students match six pictures by paring the rhyming ones together. Rhymes include nest/vest, net/jet, and kick/pick.
Curated OER
Rhyming Picture Cards
For this sounds worksheet, students match six pictures by paring the rhyming ones together. Rhymes include dig/pig, ring/wring, and sink/wink.
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Rhyming Picture Cards
In this sounds worksheet, students match six pictures by paring the rhyming ones together. Rhymes include hop/top, duck/truck, and bug/rug.
Curated OER
Rhyming Picture Cards
In this sounds worksheet, students match six pictures by pairing the rhyming ones together. Rhymes include gum/drum, run/sun, and cut/nut.
Curated OER
Rhyming Picture Cards
In this sounds worksheet, students match six pictures by grouping the rhyming ones together. Rhymes include nail/tail/snail and rain/chain/train.
Curated OER
Letter and Rhyme a Day
There are so many fun activities for alphabet learners! Use nursery rhymes, letter hunts, and the name sort to have learners interact with the letter of the day. Your learners will never get bored with the variety of activities provided...
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Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
As a class, scholars read the poems, Humpty Dumpty, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, and Jack and Jill, in order to identify words with the same ending sound. Using their rhyming skills, learners brainstorm additional words from word...
Curated OER
Rhyme Time Lesson Plan
What words rhyme? Help young learners deepen their understanding of rhyming words with this interactive plan. First they identify some words that rhyme, then they participate in a picture walk. Use books with rhyme, like Come Rhyme with...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme or No Rhyme
Rhyming is fun, builds phonemic awareness, and is a tried and true pre-reading skill. This activity helps learners identify words that rhyme. Young scholars listen to a song, locate a rhyming word they hear by clapping then draw a...
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Sequencing Pocket Chart
Cut it out! Beginning readers practice sequencing skills at home or at school with a variety of activities that require cutting out multiple sets of picture cards and putting them in the correct order.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Rhyming A-LOT-OH!
Rhymes are a great way to help your scholars with phonemic awareness and word relationships. Kids work with partners to match cards from a stack to their rhyming counterparts on a game board. There are six different boards, so this will...
Curated OER
They That Wash
Scholars examine the "They That Wash" poster and listen to the rhymes. They match word cards to the words in the nursery rhyme, practice sounds, and create new words. Afterward, they add copies of the rhyme to their "My Very Own Nursery...
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Rhyme Game
Students match rhyming picture cards. They use a musical timer and each student has the opportunity to show his or her card to the class. They must match them and show them to the teacher.