ABSTRACT
Teaching guidelines 26 Activities 27 Learning nursery songs and rhymes 27 Activities for school (Resource sheet 2.14) 27
Activity 18: A line at a time (Resource sheets 2.2 , 2.3) 27 Activity 19: Tell us a rhyme 27 Activity 20: Act out a rhyme 28 Activity 21: Extend a rhyme 28 Activity 22: Change a rhyme 28
General activities for home 29
Identifying rhymes 30 Activities for school 30
Activity 23: Rhyme box (Resource sheets 2.4, 2.5) 30 Activity 24: Rhyming bingo (Resource sheets 2.12, 2.13) 30 Activity 25: Rhyming sets 30 Activity 26: Tidy a rhyme 31
Activities for school and home 31 Activity 27: Odd one out 31 Activity 28: Rhyming pairs (Resource sheets 2.6 to 2.10) 32 Activity 29: Rhyming snap (Resource sheets 2.6 to 2.10) 32 Activity 30: Rhyme quiz 33 Activity 31: Rhyming riddles 33 Activity 32: Rhyming scrapbook 34 Activity 33: Rhyming chain game
(Resource sheets 2.11A, 2.11B) 34
Generating rhymes 35 Activities for school and home 35
Activity 34: Rhyming names 35
Activity 36: Rhyming pictures 36 Activity 37: Silly nursery rhymes 36 Activity 38: Rhyme ball (Resource sheets 2.4, 2.5) 36 Activity 39: Alphabet arc rimes 37
Introduction An ability to recognise and use rhyme is essential for later work on spelling. It is easy to spell fat if you can spell words such as cat, mat and rat. Being able to rhyme can take some of the pressure off learning each spelling as a separate entity.
