Rhyming Activities Round Up

During this month of all-things-Seuss, it is a great time to practice the phonemic awareness skill of rhyme! Especially since many of Dr. Seuss's books are filled with rhyme, which act as the perfect springboard.

Here are a few fun activities to help students with their rhyming skills.

RHYMING BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN

It's played like London Bridge is Falling Down, and is sung to the same tune.

Two students are the 'bridge', the rest make a line-up and take turns passing under the bridge as they sing:

Rhyming bridge is falling down,

falling down,

falling down,

Rhyming bridge is falling down

My fair lady-o.

Whoever gets caught in the bridge has to come up with a pair of words that rhyme before they are released.

eg. bear, chair

Play continues until everyone has a turn getting caught & making their rhyme.

To aid those who are not yet confident in their rhyming abilities, give a prompt such as:

Can you think of a word that rhymes with ....

This activity was so much fun, and is a great way to reinforce phonemic awareness skills while getting up and moving around the room!

Find out more {here}

RHYMING CARDS MATCH

A quick and simple literacy center, students match the cards that rhyme. Perfect as a pocket chart activity center.
Find it {here}

DAB-A-WORD

Do your students love using Bingo dabbers as much as mine? These pages help students practice rhyming skills while using a fun learning tool!

RHYMING READ THE ROOM

Active learning! Get students moving around the classroom looking for the picture cards. Then see if they can identify which cards have rhymes and which do not.

WORD FAMILIES

Using alphabet cards and word family mats, students manipulate the beginning sounds to create word families. A recording sheet is provided.

REAL OR SILLY?

Using another fun learning tool- highlighters!- students identify which words are 'real' and which words are 'silly'.

MAKE SOME RHYMES

Students illustrate pictures of things that rhyme with the picture provided. A great assessment tool!

Find these activities {and more!} as part of my Rhyme Time pack {here}