We always want to challenge our kids to have the greatest understanding possible in all of their lessons, --especially in reading lessons. Any way you can strengthen their skills is a plus and today I have a fun idea for you to try to do just that! The game is called “Rhyme-time” and the way you play is:
1) Choose a word ending such as “-at” (if you are working on short vowels for example)
2) Tell your child that you are both going to come up with words that end in “-at”. Explain that because the words sound alike, they rhyme.
3) Start making up words: bat, cat, fat, rat, sat, mat, pat, hat, etc.
4) Have your child repeat the words with you and ask if they can hear how they sound alike.
5) To take the game to the next level, challenge your child to see who can make up the most rhyming words!
Go through this game with all the short vowels and then move on to long vowels. Something to remember is once you get to long vowels you should point out that just because the words rhyme doesn’t mean that they are spelled similarly. For example, ‘rain’ and ‘lane’ rhyme but they display two different long vowel lessons: ‘ai’ makes the long ‘a’ sound and the ‘e’ makes the ‘a’ say its name.
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