• Students will use picture cards to find rhyming pairs.

• Visual learners: Picture cards and books are used as visual aids.
• Auditory learners: uses story reading and discussion
• Kinesthetic learners: Engages students by having them physically respond to rhymes.

• Teach students that rhymes are words that sound the same, but do not start with the same letter.   Examples of rhyming words are: hat-bat, car-jar. Write these examples on the chalkboard for a visual aid.

• Provide each student with a rhyming picture card. The rhyming picture card should include the word so that students can identify the words ending.
• Have students match their rhyming picture card with a picture card that is displayed on your pocket chart.
• Remind students that the two pictures should rhyme.
• After each student has placed their picture card in the pocket chart, then read a rhyming story. Be sure to ask the students what are the rhyming words on each page.
• After the reading and identifying the rhyming words in the book, then go over the students’ work in the pocket chart.
• Identify the correct rhyming pairs and discuss those pairs that are not correct.

• Play a rhyming ball game. First, ask students to sit in a circle.
• Next, explain to students that you are going to give them a word and each student will take a turn saying a word that rhymes with the word you said. When the student says a correct rhyming word then they will be tossed the ball. 
• Then the student who is holding the ball will need to say a word and another student will need to say a word that rhymes.

Here is an example:

Teacher: What word rhymes with ball?

Student 1: Hall

Teacher throws ball to Student 1.

Student 1 holds ball and Teachers asks: What word rhymes with make?

Student 2: Rake

Student 1 throws ball to Student 2.

Continue to play until all students have a turn.

Another variation is to have students come up with their own rhyming words to ask their friends.

• List 7-8 rhyming and non-rhyming word pairs. Ask students to identify which pairs are rhyming and non-rhyming pairs. 

• Challenge students to create their own rhyming story.