CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2a

ELAKindergartenPhonological Awareness

The Standard

Recognize and produce rhyming words.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen for words with the same ending sounds. They identify rhyming pairs and say words that rhyme with a word they hear.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can hear which two words rhyme in a short list. They can also say a real or made-up word that rhymes with a given word.
Common Misconceptions: Students may match words by the first sound, such as cat and cup, instead of listening to the ending. They may also confuse words that sound alike with words that name related things.
How to Assess It: Say, “Tell me a word that rhymes with log.” Then ask the student to choose the rhyming pair from sun and sock, cake and snake, or fish and fan.

Lesson moves

Give students picture cards and have them pair rhyming pictures, such as cat and hat or fox and box.
Read a short rhyming poem, then ask, “Which words rhyme, and what sounds the same at the end?”
Play rhyme toss: say a word, toss a beanbag, and have the catcher say a rhyming word.
Use classroom objects to make rhyme pairs, such as chair and bear, then let students invent silly matching words.

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Learning progression

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