Even when many of our students are able to HEAR rhymes all of the time, it still helps them to practice. I love to do rhyming throughout the year. I love to hang up this rhyme time poster for students to refer to as well! The following lesson is how I really USE this video to introduce and teach rhyming at the beginning of the school year! When I first engage students with this lesson, I make sure to really explain everything to students. At the end, the picture on the video is an orange we (after a mini lesson) always talk about how orange is the only word without a rhyme!

The video is very cute and it shows many sets of rhyming words. Also, it has mini-summaries within the video that students can sing along with. This video shows real-life images of rhyming words. Rhyme Time is a video form Hooked on Phonics that the kids really love. When I introduce rhyming words, (with no surprise) I use a fun, engaging and entertaining video to show rhyming. When our kids can rhyme, they have a solid understanding of phonemic awareness skills that they can draw from when reading, writing and even speaking or singing! I do this because it is important that we expose our students to different ways of rhyming to get them to soak it in! When our students soak in rhyming, they don't just get better at making song lyrics or creating stories with similarly-ended words. I know it is hard for my students, so I really try to expose them to rhymes as much as possible.

Throughout the year, I LOVE to talk about rhyme.

Rhyming words for kindergarten