Scholastic is a website that has many resources for teachers, parents, and kids. There are several games and activities under the kids section, like “Reggie Loves to Rhyme.” This game allows children to pick a place (home, store, restaurant, etc.) where they want to rhyme. After choosing a place, the students are then given a word, like dime, and they choose the picture that rhymes with that word. I think this is an excellent resource to be used in the classroom. This website provides pictures of the words for children who are not proficient in reading. I would use this website in class by showing the students the word and picture, and then have them write or draw the rhyming word on a dry erase board or piece of paper. After an allotted amount of time, the students would then show their answer and we would use the website to see if they are correct. They could also think of several words, independently or in groups, that rhyme with the given word. For homework assignments, students could write a rhyming story based on the word. I think this is a great resource for EL classrooms because it provides many opportunities for them to develop language. For instance, it allows them to read, write, speak, and interact with their peers. It also shows them pictures if they are uncertain of what the word is. This helps them connect what they see to what the word says. Scholastic illustrates principles of effective teaching because it provides several opportunities for the children to practice developing their target language.
By D’Anna Siciliano
2. http://www.thevirtualvine.com/nurseryrhymes.html
The website The Virtual Vine is a website that will be very useful for any future teachers when focusing on a lesson on rhyming. As we all know when it comes to teaching young children the concept of rhyming a great tool to do so is using nursery rhymes. It is something that most children grow up with. If they don’t know them it will be easy to catch onto because of the rhyming. On the left side of this website, it lists most all of the popular nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, and Little Miss Muffet. Once you click on the actual rhyme then a visual of the poem will come up. This is a great tool to bring up onto the computer for the students to see the poem. The words to the poem are displayed along with a picture that describes the nursery rhyme. Then once you are done with going over rhyme under the poem the website gives you many activities to do with your students. First you can ask the children to point out the rhyming words in the nursery rhymes. Then you can go over other words that rhyme with the words seen in the poems. Also, the website is good for helping teachers use the poem into different activities. For example on the Jack and Jill page, there is an example activity that a student could write what else Jack and Jill could do besides go up a hill. Maybe instead the students could come up with Jack and Jill go pay their bill. This is great way to have students get their mind working and thinking about rhyming words. This website is a good transition into a homework assignment for the students to do at home. The teacher could give them the website and the students could pick out the poem they want to read. Then they could make up their own rhyming poems using similar words from the website. The website will be good for students of all different learning levels. Students are able to see visually the poem, which can help many students. The downfall to this site is that it is a site that will be more useful to a teacher than a student. This site is made to help a teacher with their lessons on rhyming. But overall this website will help students and teachers with the concept of rhyming.
By Stephanie Nguyen
3. http://www.instructorweb.com/lesson/rhymetime.asp
I found a very useful Lesson Plan dealing with rhyming through Instructor Web. “Rhyme Time Lesson Plan” is recommended for grades K-2. The objectives of this plan include reading a rhyming book in which the children will learn to identify, say and write rhyming words by participating in class discussions of the text. Not only will students learn rhyming techniques, but they will also work on the development of phonemic awareness, writing, and reading comprehension. By the end of this these activities, students should be able to successfully identify words that rhyme or have the same ending sound.
Some helpful books for this lesson should include books such as:
§ Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? by Bill Martin Jr.
§ Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
§ Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
§ One Fish, Two Fish, Three, Four, Five Fish by Dr. Seuss
Using these books as resources, you can create many fun activities for your students. After you have chosen a book, do a read aloud and have the students predict main characters, setting , etc. Then, read the story and have them repeat the repetitive or predictable phrases with you. After this, see if the students can carry on the same process by themselves. Then, reread the book and have them raise their hand when they hear a rhyming pair then write these words on index cards. At the end of the story, mix up the cards and put them back up on the chart. Call students up to match a pair of rhyming words. Have them stand at the front of the room and read their pair with the class. They can then play a variety of games using the words. A game like Memory can be implemented by mixing up the cards and assigning them to students who will then find their rhyming pairs. In the end, you can do a simple closing activity by calling out a word and pointing to individual students that will need to shout out a rhyming pair!
4. http://www.sesamestreet.org/
This website is a wonderful place for children to practice the concept of rhyming. If you go to the main website and click on “games”, and click the link that says “by subject”, you will find the rhyming link. Here there are three different games that involve rhyming.
Teachers can use this resource in their classroom by using it as a bonus lesson, such as when the class has been behaving really well. The teacher can have the students involved in the lesson by having them call out ideas about which words rhyme together and what kind of words rhyme with the words that were not the right answer. The teacher can also use this website as a possible homework assignment. The teacher could have the students go to this website and write down six words that rhymed with each other. The limitation to using a website for a homework assignment is the accessibility of computers to the students outside of class. The teacher could incorporate this activity into small groups and one group at a time, can go up to the computer and learn their six words for the day.
A strength of this website is that it involves simple words that the children already know but then introduces the concept of words that sound alike. During each game, the website gives parents a tip on another rhyming activity they can involve their child in outside of this website. The tips are wonderful because they show kids how many things they can do with. Another very important strength of this website is that it is fun! Kids will engage themselves in activities that they enjoy doing.
By Amy Yarbrough
5. http://www.seussville.com/main.php?section=playground&pgarea=area1
Upon entering Seussville children become immediately encompassed with a website that disguises learning in the fun, animated world of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is known for his way with words in children’s books, especially with rhyming. In Seussville, children can explore several games in which rhyming is used to encourage phonemic awareness. Particularly, the “Fox in Socks” Matching Game under the playground link is a great example of how children can discover through rhyming. The idea of the game is for children to create rhyming sentences that match the picture. For example, a picture of a fox sitting in a box will appear and the children would have to take each individual word (i.e., fox, box, the, in, socks, knox, etc.) and rearrange them to create a rhyming sentence that describes the picture. Another great tool is the “quote maker” which is also found in the playground section of the website. Each time you click on the link, a rhyming quote from one of Dr. Seuss’ popular books, pops up. This is helpful so that the students can guess certain words that may also rhyme with the quote and even go so far as to create their own quotes. This can be incorporated in homework assignments. For example, students may have to explore the website and click on the quote maker, and then personally add on a sentence or two to the quote that continue the rhyme. This website could also be used in the classroom as a reward for finishing assignments early or earning free time. It is a great way to encourage learning through fun activities and games. One other interesting tool this website offers is the “Seussville Story Maker”, which is also found under the playground section. In this section, students can select a background and characters and then, page by page, create a story. One condition the teacher can implement is that the story must rhyme, much like the rest of Dr. Seuss’ popular books. Overall, this website is a great device for encouraging phonemic awareness in an interesting manner, so that students can learn, while having fun.
By Noura Wakim
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