Lesson 2 Rhymes Contents Page 2 Rhymes Resources: Kididdles.com website (2.01) Page 3 Rhymes Resources: Rhyme Time website (2.02) PDF color (2.03) Page 4 Rhymes Resources: Down by the Bay PDF b+w sheet (2.04) PDF color (2.03) Page 5 Rhymes Resources: PDF color (2.03) Page 6 Rhymes Resources: PDF color (2.03) Download a black and white printable version of these lesson plans.
2 The reason children learn nursery rhymes is because rhymes help develop an ear for English. Rhymes stress the sounds and syllables in words. Understanding sounds and syllables helps children learn to read! It s important for students to experience a variety of rhymes, songs and poems. They need to build a stock of rhymes through hearing them repeated many times. Rhymes and songs are an effective way to remember whole sentences and phrases by tuning into the rhythm that accompanies them. Encouraging nonsense rhymes is an acceptable way for students to begin to generate and produce rhyme. KIDiddles and Nursery Rhymes Kididdles Website Kididdles.com Go to the Kididdles website to listen to rhymes, and songs. You can download the tunes, the lyrics and sheets music. Introduce students to a new rhyme or song everyday.
3 Have your students go to Disney s Shanna s Show Rhyme Time Game and play the game. You ll find a link to the web page in the Online Lesson Plans. Click on the Lesson Plans icon under this video. Shanna s Show Rhyme Time Visit this Disney website and have students play the rhyme games. Download the. There are 32 different pictures and 2 cards of each picture. There are 8 cards on each sheet. You need to print the cards on thick paper. Then cut along the grey lines. The cards will be used to play a variety of rhyming games. Print the cards on a thick paper or card stock. You can also laminate for extra protection.
4 Download the KIDiddles SongSheet Down By the Bay. Point out the rhymes bear and hair in the first verse and bee and knee in the second verse. Show the for cat and bat. Explain that the words cat and bat rhyme. Make up a sentence using these words in the Down By the Bay song, such as Did you ever see a bat kissing a cat down by the bay? Kididdles SongSheet Down by the Bay Kididdles Song Page Down by the Bay Listen to the song Set out the in groups of rhyming pairs. Ask students to select a pair of cards and make up a sentence for the song Down By the Bay, using the two rhyming words. My Mother will say Did you ever see a cat Wearing a hat Down by the bay?
5 Tell students that they are going to play Rhyming Pairs. Students need to be familiar with the rhyming word sets before they use them in the game spend time looking at the pictures and talking about the pairs. Place the Rhyme cards face down. Students take turns to turn over two cards and keep them if the pictures are a rhyming pair. If they are not a rhyming pair, the cards are turned face down again and the next student has a turn. Start with a small core set of pairs that can then be extended. Tell students they are going to play Rhyming Bingo Give each student two pictures. Hide in the stack a set of pictures matching the pictures you have given to the Students take turns to draw out of the stack one card at a time. Students call out when they see a picture that rhymes with theirs and to collect it from the student who has drawn it from the stack. After each rhyming set is completed chant together the rhyming names.
6 Start the next game by laying down three rhyme cards, two that rhyme and one that does not. Ask the students to name each object. Ask the first student to give you the card that does not rhyme with the others. If the student selects the correct card, she wins the pair of rhyming cards and you set out another set of three for the next student. If the student selects the wrong card, the next student has a turn. Repeat any of the previous activities until you are sure that the students have shown that they can recognize and produce rhymes. Now that we have covered sounds and rhyme, in Lesson 3 we ll begin to to teach the phonemes. The next lesson is consonant /n/ and short vowel /a/ Download a black and white printable version of these lesson plans.