Phonological Awareness:
Rhyming Words
Introduction:
The TTS for Rhyming Words assess whether a student finds it easier to learn about rhyming by
producing words that rhyme or by working with rhyming picture names. ________________________________________________________________________
Strategy: Hearing and Making Rhymes
Materials Needed:
Say: Words rhyme when their ending parts sound the same.
Listen to these words: bake, take, lake.
- The sound you hear at the end of bake is -ake. What's the sound you hear at the
end of bake?
(-ake)
The sound you hear at the end of take is -ake. What's the ending sound? (-ake)
The sound you hear at the end of lake is -ake. What's the ending sound? (-ake)
The words bake, take, and lake all sound alike at the end. They all end with -ake.
Bake, take, and lake are words that rhyme.
Listen to these words: look and took.
- What sound do you hear at the end of look?
- What sound do you hear at the end of took?
- Do look and took rhyme? How do you know?
- Can you tell me another word that rhymes with look and took?
On the Student Record Form, record the student's responses.
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If the student cannot provide another rhyming word,
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What about cat? Does cat rhyme with look and took? How do you know? |
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What about book? Does book rhyme with look and took? How do you know? |
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How about cook? Does cook rhyme with look, took, and book? How do you know? |
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Say: I will say three more words that rhyme with each other. Listen to the words and say them
after me. Then tell me another word that rhymes with those words.
- hug . . . mug . . . jug
A word that rhymes with hug, mug, and jug is ____?
- pear . . . chair . . . care
A word that rhymes with pear, chair, and care is ____?
- king . . . ring . . . bring
A word that rhymes with king, ring, and bring is ____?
On the Student Record Form, record the student's responses.
If the student is still having difficulty with hearing and recognizing words that rhyme, try Using
Pictures in Hearing Rhymes.
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Strategy: Using Pictures in Hearing Rhymes
Materials Needed:
Included in Strategy: Hearing and Making Rhymes
Lay out the picture cards for goat, sock, hat, house, cake, and mouse, naming each picture as you
do.
Say: Two of these words rhyme with each other. They sound the same at the end. Say
each word and see if you can find the two words that rhyme with each other.
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If the student has difficulty, pick up two cards at a time and ask the student to compare their
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After the rhyming words (house, mouse) are identified, show the Using Pictures in Hearing
Rhymes picture sheet.
Say: Here is a page of pictures. Each row has pictures of two words that rhyme. Tell me
the rhyming words in each row. (boat-coat, snake-rake, clock-block, cat-bat)
After the student identifies the rhyming words,
Say: At the end of each row, there is room for one more rhyming word. Look again at the
picture cards we were working with, and pick the one that fits each row.
On the Student Record Form, record the student's responses.
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Interpreting and Using TTS Results:
Read simple rhyming verses to students who need more practice with rhyming words. Begin by
having students identify the rhyming words in the verses. Then, ask students to complete the
verses. Some examples are
| The more you know, |
As the days grow longer, |
| The more you grow. |
The storms grow stronger. |
| (Lynette K. Allen) |
(Mother Goose) |
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| I'll sing you a song, |
Who always keeps an open mind |
| Though it's not very long. |
To truth will be no longer blind. |
| (Mother Goose) |
(Thornton Burgess) |
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| Hold fast to dreams |
We never know how high we are |
| For if dreams die |
Till we are called to rise; |
| Life is a broken-winged bird |
And then, if we are true to plan, |
| That cannot fly. |
Our statures touch the skies. |
| (Langston Hughes) |
(Emily Dickinson) |
"Dreams" from The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes. Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of
Langston Hughes. Reprinted with permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
"We Never Know How High" excerpt from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, by Emily Dickinson, edited by
Thomas H. Johnson, J1176. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Reprinted electronically with permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College, Cambridge,
Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
