Rhyme awareness was used in a 1st grade phonological awareness lesson I observed. This activity is at the linguistic level of manipulation which is introduced in 1st grade (Cooter and Reutzel, 2015 p. 110). Students worked in pairs on the carpet and were given cards with a picture on each card. The students had to match the cards that rhymed until every card was matched up. The teacher walked around the room, questioned students and made sure that they were all on task. Some of the cards that students had to match up were tree and free, mouse and house, and boat and goat. In this activity manipulation occurred for example, by substituting the /m/ sound for the /h/ sound in house. This is not a picture from the classroom, but an example of manipulation
