Some students may be working on matching rhymes with “iRhyme” while others are producing rhymes with “Make a Rhyme.” This allows you to differentiate to meet the needs of your students. #6: Rhyming Centersįor a ton of hands-on, differentiated rhyming practice, rhyming centers take the cake! There are 8 different low-prep rhyming centers included, covering various skill levels. Then have them come up and place their sticky note under the correct column, matching their rhyming word to the word on the board or paper. You can either pass out the sticky notes to students or have them draw a sticky note from a pile. Again, you can write as many or as few words as you'd like depending on if you are using this as a small or whole group activity. Next, write words that rhyme with each word on sticky notes. You can also draw a simple picture next to the focus word in each column as an additional visual aid for your students. You can make 5 columns and choose a different vowel sound for each column or you can differentiate and choose as many columns as you'd like and whichever word families you'd like. This DIY rhyming activity is super easy to prep and only requires sticky notes and either a whiteboard or piece of chart paper! Simply make columns on your whiteboard or chart paper with 1 word at the top of each. This will help them understand that even though the beginning sound changes, the ending sound stays the same.įor example, to change the word from “bat” to “cat,” use language such as, “c hange the /b/ sound to a /c/ sound.” #5: Sticky Note Rhyming To use the activity in this way, prompt students to change the beginning sound in the word to make a new word. This activity can easily be extended to work on phoneme substitution with rhyming words. Once they get the hang of the activity, you can have the students write the word on the board, going around the room until all students have had a turn and the ladder is complete! Have students think of a word that rhymes and write that word above it. To begin, write a word at the bottom of the whiteboard. The first time you use this activity, I recommend doing it as a whole group activity on the big teacher whiteboard. This activity can be done as a whole group activity, in small groups, or during literacy centers. Word ladders are a great rhyming activity for kindergarten. These mats include 4 different sets: CVC words, CVCe words, short vowel words, and long vowel words. Then they will record the rhyming words on their recording sheet, giving them an opportunity to practice writing and spelling the words. #3: Rhyming Matsįor a hands-on rhyming activity for kindergarten, rhyming mats are perfect! With these rhyming mats, students will look at the mat, say the name of a picture, and cover it with a rhyming picture card. This is a fun activity for students and is a great way to expose them to more words and give them ample opportunities to practice listening for those same ending sounds. Play continues in a circle until all students in the circle have said a rhyming word. The next person says a word that rhymes with that word. Pass the rhyme is a fun circle time activity for students and requires zero materials or prep! The first person says a word out loud. This option is a bit more advanced as they will use their phonics skills as well as their phonemic awareness skills.
This gives them a little more practice with decoding CVC words. The second option is to have students match the picture card to a rhyming word card.
They can match pairs of pictures or make a whole stack of pictures that rhyme. The first option is to have students match pictures based on if they rhyme. There are a couple of different ways you can play this game. You can draw simple pictures on notecards if you don't have picture cards in your classroom and save them for future activities! One of the most basic and effective rhyming activities for kindergarten is rhyming match-up! All you need for this activity are picture cards and/or word cards. Activities that are hands-on and that include different words and rhyming pictures are key in keeping the engagement high. The more opportunities they have to work with rhyming words, the better. When it comes to teaching rhyming words in the classroom, it is important to keep the learning fun, upbeat, and provide a variety of activities for students to learn with.