Rhyming With Big Fish Essay

Rhyming with Big Fish Little Fish

Objective: Students will be able to recognize rhyming words and will be able to produce them.

TEKS: English Language Arts and Reading, Kindergarten (b) Knowledge and skills.
(2) Reading/Beginning Reading Skills/Phonological Awareness. Students display phonological awareness. Students are expected to:
(C) orally generate rhymes in response to spoken words (e.g., "What rhymes with hat?");
(D) distinguish orally presented rhyming pairs of words from non-rhyming pairs;
(3) Reading/Beginning Reading Skills/Phonics. Students use the relationships between letters and sounds, spelling patterns, and morphological analysis to decode written English. Students are expected to:
(A) identify the common sounds that letters represent;
(4)
• Explain to them that you would like them to raise their hands when they recognize rhyming words as you read
• Read the book and choose students as they raise their hands to tell what rhyming words they heard

Teacher Instruction:
• After reading Big Fish Little Fish, go over the rhymes the students remember again.
• Explain and show to students what rhyming words look like. List a few on the board and show them how the end of the words looks and sounds the same, but the front looks different.
• Tell students that for individual work, you would like them to think of two rhyming words themselves.

Individual Work:
• Have students think of two rhyming words.
• Have students get out a piece of paper and write down their words, one on each side of the