SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD WITH RHYME: 20.4.20
Rhyme is a great way to help support your child with reading. It helps your child to notice that rhyming words often have shared letter sequences, such as –all in tall, ball, and small. Most children enjoy hearing and participating in rhyming activities, and when they are exposed to rhyming, they usually pick it up naturally.
There are 3 stages to help support the development of Rhyme. These are:
- STAGE 1: HEARING RHYME: Your child gets used to hearing and repeating rhyme.
- STAGE 2: RECOGNISING RHYME: Your child can identify two words that rhyme.
- STAGE 3: PRODUCING RHYME: Your child can think of a word that rhymes with another word
Over the next few days we will look at 5 different ways you can help your child to understand rhyme and I will share resources and ideas to help also. Step 1:
- Read rhyming picture books together.
There are hundreds of great rhyming books, and this Rhyming Picture Books Library List is a good place to start. As you read, occasionally point out words that rhyme. (“Oh, goat and boat rhyme! They sound the same at the end. Goat, boat.”)
Use the list attached to help you share rhyming picture books together like we do in Nursery and P1/2 and let us know how you get on.
Rhyming-Picture-Books-Library-List
Tomorrow we will look at a Rhyming games and also Nursery Rhymes to further support teaching Rhyme and I will include the games and further reading lists.
Mrs Docherty
