Rhyming

Rhyming is to be similar in sound, esp. with respect to the last syllable.  Preschool children develop experience with rhyme through chants, songs, finger plays, nursery rhymes and other poems.  Many Preschool books have rhyming text.

Rhyming helps children hear that words are made of sound parts.  This is a valuable concept as in reading letters are representing these sounds.

Children who can rhyme and manipulate the sounds in words are likely to be more successful in reading.

A Hunting We Will Go http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=264
Alphabetical list of Nursery Rhymes http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymes/
Book lists http://www.literatureforliterature.ecsd.net/rhyming_books.htm
Creating a Cinquain http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=51
Generating Rhymes http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=121
Hey Diddle, Diddle! http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=216
How to teach Rhyming http://www.succeedtoread.com/rhyme.html
Mother Goose and rhyme http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=83
http://www.librarysupport.net/mothergoosesociety/rhyme.html

Download from http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10607

Nursery Rhyme in rebus http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/coloring/
Playing with Humpty Dumpty http://www.acsu.k12.vt.us/~Gemignani/pawareness.html
Poems and songs for themes http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems.html
Onset and rime http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=103
Onset-rime matrix http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/midbins/literacy/op030.PDF
Reading Genie http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/
Rhyming activities http://pals.edschool.virginia.edu/activities/SubcategoryDetails.cfm?type=subcategory&id=6
Sample lesson plans http://www.sparkisland.com/public/curriculum/ni/langlit/foundation/developing_awareness_sounds/?view=teacher
Songs, sorted by letter sounds http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/allsongs.html
Songs and Nursery Rhymes from around the world http://www.mamalisa.com/world/index.html

Sounds to letters http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/pdfs/9phonemes.pdf

Progressing through "Early Literacy Links"
Developmental Appropriate and Best Practice, Planting the Seeds, Language Development, Story time
Phonological Awareness, Rhyming, Alliteration, Breaking words in syllables
Written Expression, Print and Book Awareness, Letter Knowledge
Curriculum, Planning, Authors, Assessment
Working with Parents, Mentoring and Guiding Principles

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Last updated August 6, 2007