After a few pages, the chart might look like this: example chart lesson 3 (docx - 23.26kb) After reading ask for students’ responses and list these on a chart.Ask students to close their eyes and open their ears and listen for words that rhyme or end with the same sound while you read the text. Reread the picture book aloud to students for pleasure.Whole class, or small group (4-6 students). Text encoder - representing the same sounds in words with different letters Group size I can identify some of the different letter patterns that make the same sounds in written words. I can hear and identify rhyming words when I listen to a story. We are learning that some words in English rhyme, that is, when we say them we hear the same sound at the end of the words.We are learning that the same sound in English can be written using different letters. They explore graphophonic knowledge by looking at different ways of representing the same sounds with graphemes or written letters.

In this lesson, students enjoy the playful use of rhyming language. Listening to the story provides an excellent opportunity to develop this aspect of phonological awareness as they practise the ability to recognise and learn the concept of rhyme in spoken words. Identify common syllables and patterns within words.Identify and produce phonemes in blends or clusters at the beginning and end of syllables.Links to the Victorian Curriculum – English as an Additional Language (EAL) Pathway A Speaking and listening Manipulate phonemes by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words ( VCELA204).Identify rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and some sounds (phonemes) in spoken words ( VCELA168).Links to the Victorian Curriculum – English English, Speaking and Listening, Language: Phonics and word knowledge

Rhyming lessons for kindergarten