Literacy

Rhyme Time with Your Little

June 28, 2019 / 50 Comments

Rhyming is an important building block for your child’s success in learning language and reading. Rhyming helps young children learn how language works. They can hear the rhythm and flow of language. It also allows them to play with language in a fun way. My children always loved to take a familiar rhyme or song and change the words to go with something we were talking about or learning. Sometimes we just changed the words for fun and to be silly.

Rhyming can also help children begin to make predictions as they work with language as they try to anticipate what rhyming word will follow. Rhyming also helps children begin to write. They quickly learn that many rhyming words have the same letters in them. This knowledge helps them to realize that if they can write one word they can write many others within the same word family (ran, fan, pan, tan). Of course this isn’t true for all rhyming words, but it gets them started and gives them confidence and a place to begin.

Of course rhyming is also just fun. Children love to play with language and the rhythm of language. So, it is a great way to get them engaged and have fun.

Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes are a great place to start when teaching your child to rhyme.

  • Read them aloud to your child.
  • Read or recite them, but stop when you get to the rhyming word and have your child fill in the missing rhyming word.
  • Recite, sing, clap and act out the nursery rhymes.
  • A favorite for my children when they were growing up: Keep the tune, but change the words to what you happen to be doing at the time. Have your child help you come up with words that rhyme. Have fun playing with the tune and new words.

Have fun and enjoy the language play.

List of Nursery Rhymes

Rhyming Games

Games are always a great way to get littles engaged in learning. As long as they think it is a game they will play it happily and have fun learning.

  • Park Your Car Rhyme: 
    • Materials: Rhyming Pictures, Construction Paper, Matchbox Cars, Scissors, Ruler
    • On either side (long side) of the construction paper draw lines for parking spaces, glue half of the rhyming pictures onto the construction paper in the parking spaces. Make a pile with the rest of the picture cards. Pick a card say the picture and drive the car to the matching rhyming picture

  • Rhyming ZAP:
    • Materials: rhyming pictures, index cards, marker, basket or bag
    • Use the rhyming pictures glue some rhyming picture sets and some non-rhyming sets onto index cards, make some cards say ZAP Trap, put them in the bag/basket, they choose a card say the pictures pictures, if they rhyme they keep the card if it is not a rhyme the card gets mixed back in the bag/basket, if they pull out a card that says Zap Trap all their cards go back in the bag/basket

  • Rhyming Memory:
      • Materials: rhyming pictures
      • Cut the pictures apart, mix them up, lay them out and choose a card say the picture then turn over another card and say it. If they rhyme you get to keep the rhyme set.
  • Go Fish:
      • Materials: rhyming pictures, index cards, glue
      • Cut each of the pictures apart and glue them on individual index cards. mix them up deal them and play go fish asking for a picture that rhymes with your card.
  • Beanbag Rhyme Pass:
    • Materials: Beanbag
    • Hold a beanbag and say a word (cat) then pass the beanbag to your child and they say a word that rhymes (hat) continue until someone does not say a word that rhymes. Allow for nonsense words as long as they rhyme.
  • Rhyme Bingo:
    • Materials: rhyming pictures, construction paper, beans for markers
    • Make a bingo card using half of the rhyming picture pairs, use the other half of the cards as the calling cards. the child covers the picture that rhymes with the picture you called when they cover a row they have bingo.

 

Rhyme Pictures

Rhyming Puzzles

Rhyming Books

I always have favorite books. Below is a list of some of my favorite rhyming books. Read the books just as they are written. Then, read the book and when you get to the rhyming word in the book see what rhyming word they would like to put in it’s place. They can choose the word they have heard in the story or make it silly with other words, or even use nonsense words as long as they rhyme it works.

Dr. Seuss is always a favorite for rhyming books. Here is a set of 5 Dr. Seuss books.

Jamberry by Bruce Degen

Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy E. Shaw

Duck in a Truck by Jez Alborough

Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney

There’s a Bear on My Chair by Ross Collins

The Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen

Bear Snore On by Karma Wilson

Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha

Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae

 

 

 

As always this is just a small list of some of my favorite rhyming books. Please share with us some of your favorite rhyming books.

I would also love to see your littles enjoying some of the rhyming activities shared above.

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