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Generating rhymes: Developing phonemic awareness

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A lesson plan for Grades K–2 English Language Arts

Provider: IRA/NCTE

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K–2
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IRA/NCTE

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Learning how to generate rhyme and recognizing rhyming patterns in language is an essential skill for emergent readers. Students should be able to manipulate words and sounds to create simple rhymes, which will help them recognize word and letter patterns later on. This ReadWriteThink lesson supports the goal of helping young students to recognize and generate rhymes through songs, poems, and games. Students will create rhyming lyrics to known songs, give rhyming words for a given keyword in a poem, and interact with their peers to find rhyming pairs. Students will then demonstrate their knowledge through an individual assessment exercise.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
    • Objective 1.01: Develop phonemic awareness and demonstrate knowledge of alphabetic principle:
      • count syllables in a word.
      • blend the phonemes of one-syllable words.
      • segment the phonemes of one-syllable words.
      • change the beginning, middle, and ending sounds to produce new words.
      • create and state a series of rhyming words that may include consonant blends (e.g., flag, brag).
    • Objective 1.04: Self-monitor decoding by using one or two decoding strategies (e.g., beginning letters, rimes, length of word, ending letters).

Grade 2

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
    • Objective 1.01: Use phonics knowledge and structural analysis (e.g., knowledge of syllables, suffixes, prefixes, root words) to decode regular multi-syllable words when reading text.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
    • Objective 1.02: Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle:
      • demonstrate understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds.
      • demonstrate understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word.
      • demonstrate understanding of the sounds of letters and understanding that words begin and end alike (onsets and rimes).