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📖 Kindergarten · ELARF.K.2aUnit 3: Rhyming & syllables

Make a rhyme

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🎯 Objective: Students produce a word that rhymes with a given word.

Lesson outline

  1. Rhyme chain around the circle.
  2. Nonsense rhymes are OK!
  3. Finish the rhyme in a poem.
  4. Exit: rhyme with bug.

Lesson 2 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RF.K.2a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Kindergarten — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Recognize and produce rhyming words
  • Count and blend syllables in spoken words

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Phonological awareness📚 All Kindergarten skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Rhyming & syllables”

  1. Do they rhyme?
  2. Make a rhyme
  3. Clap the syllables
  4. Blend and split syllables
  5. Nursery rhymes

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