ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: Rhyme Jump
The teacher will provide the class with a one syllable word to rhyme. Teacher or students will provide a matching word to rhyme. Students will bend their knees on the onset (the initial consonant or consonant blend that precedes the vowel and final consonant(s) of the syllable) and jump on the rime (the vowel and final consonant(s)). In the word “sit”, “s” is the onset and “it” is the rime. Students should verbalize the onset (s) while bending and verbalize the rime (it) while jumping. Material needed is a list of rhyming words.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The student will be able to more easily understand, hear, identify or produce rhyming words by separating the onset from the rime through the kinesthetic activity of bending knees on the onset and jumping on the rime.
APPROPRIATENESS OF ACTIVITIES FOR TARGETED STUDENTS
Rhyme Jump is especially appropriate for kindergarten students who are having difficulty with phonological awareness (the ability to hear sounds in words). Being able to divide a syllable into an onset and rime and to group words that end in the …show more content…
This simple approach to rhyming words could be implemented immediately and could be used frequently with little effort to reinforce this vital prereading skill. Many of the activities presented in the seminar reinforced active learning to meet the motor needs of this K-2 age group such as the Rhyme Jump activity.
STUDENT EVALUATION
Students were evaluated through observation as they actively engage in verbalizing while bending on the onset and jumping on the rime. A more formal evaluation of rhyming skills would be done through an individual oral assessment that requires the student to pick one word out of two that rhymes with the target word and/or to produce a rhyming word that matches the target word.
SELF
The teacher will provide the class with a one syllable word to rhyme. Teacher or students will provide a matching word to rhyme. Students will bend their knees on the onset (the initial consonant or consonant blend that precedes the vowel and final consonant(s) of the syllable) and jump on the rime (the vowel and final consonant(s)). In the word “sit”, “s” is the onset and “it” is the rime. Students should verbalize the onset (s) while bending and verbalize the rime (it) while jumping. Material needed is a list of rhyming words.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The student will be able to more easily understand, hear, identify or produce rhyming words by separating the onset from the rime through the kinesthetic activity of bending knees on the onset and jumping on the rime.
APPROPRIATENESS OF ACTIVITIES FOR TARGETED STUDENTS
Rhyme Jump is especially appropriate for kindergarten students who are having difficulty with phonological awareness (the ability to hear sounds in words). Being able to divide a syllable into an onset and rime and to group words that end in the …show more content…
This simple approach to rhyming words could be implemented immediately and could be used frequently with little effort to reinforce this vital prereading skill. Many of the activities presented in the seminar reinforced active learning to meet the motor needs of this K-2 age group such as the Rhyme Jump activity.
STUDENT EVALUATION
Students were evaluated through observation as they actively engage in verbalizing while bending on the onset and jumping on the rime. A more formal evaluation of rhyming skills would be done through an individual oral assessment that requires the student to pick one word out of two that rhymes with the target word and/or to produce a rhyming word that matches the target word.
SELF