Guess the Rhyme

Purpose:  Children have an opportunity to hear and focus on rhyming words as the words unfold in familiar nursery rhymes. Rhyming is an important skill for children to develop, in part because it helps develop phonemic awareness, an essential element in learning to read. For generations, nursery rhymes have given children the practice they need to develop an ear for rhyme. This activity gives additional focus to that skill.

 

Materials/Advance Preparation:

• A book of nursery rhymes.
• Books with repeated phrases or short rhyming poems.

 

Directions:

1. Choose a nursery rhyme and read/recite the entire rhyme to the children.
2. Reread  or recite the nursery rhyme leaving out the last word of every other line. Let the children fill in the last word that goes in the rhyme. For example:

                        Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall.
                        Humpty Dumpty had a great _______

        3.    Do this with other nursery rhymes.

 

Eric Gidseg

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