Take advantage of the harvest season to teach seasonal words and to teach students rhyming words using the seasonal words.
Materials:
Poster of October Words (click on image to the right)
Paper, stapled into little books, for each student
Pencils and crayons
Dry Erase Boards and Markers for each student
Prior Knowledge:
Discuss some of the rhyming big books, poems, songs, or nursery rhymes that you have read thus far this school year.
Teach:
Show the students the list of October words. Tell them that as a class you will create some rhyming words.
Choose two words that already rhyme from the poster, cat and bat. Write them on the teacher's dry erase board. Begin to notice the way they sound. Next, have the students notice the way they look. Notice that -at is the ending of both words. Let the students copy the two words (in list form) onto the dry erase boards.
Next, make a blank line followed by the word at. For example, ____ at
Ask the students if they can think of another word that rhymes with cat and bat. Record and let the students record onto dry erase boards.
Continue until you have a list of rhyming words.
Procedure:
Show the students the little books and have a model for them.
Write a title on the cover, Halloween Rhyming Words, and the author and illustrator's name (student name).
On each page, students pick a rhyming word to write (one word only per page) and illustrate. You may want to add one small black line onto the bottom of the page for each word to assist beginner writers. This will teach students one to one correspondence of picture to word. Have the students touch each page as they reread.
Assess:
Can the students recreate the list and do they exhibit an understanding of one to one correspondence?
Extend the Activity:
Leave your list on the dry erase board and allow students to make the words with magnetic boards and letters during center time.