"Phonological awareness" rhyming kindergarten Kindertips

Kindertips Rhyming

	This sorting activity helps children discriminate between words that rhyme with "cat" and words that rhyme with "wing." Pull pictures out of a bag and have children guess the word by segmenting the phonemes in each word. As each picture is guessed have students sort the pictures and glue them under the two headings. After the pictures have been sorted, interactively label the pictures. Draw attention to the "at" chunk by highlighting it with book tape or underlining it. Click here for pictures to go with this lesson Pictures from: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm#Thirty_Featured_Rhymes
	Click on the picture to the left for lots of nursery rhyme activities to teach rhyming. This site also has pages that can be copied with the nursery rhymes that can be used for shared reading and also be put in individual poem books.
	When using the Jack Hartman CD (the first song about the Gingerbread Man) DeAnn Egeland selects a child to point to the words as the other children sing. This becomes a favorite and can be used over and over for shared reading and to promote rhyming.
	To promote rhyming, Jami Holton had children generate rhyming words and then illustrate them. The poems they made can then be used for shared reading and eventually for "reading the room."

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