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by Catie Gosselin of WomanLinks.com
Materials : beads, linking cubes,
or any multi colored manipulatives, any child's
rhymes or poems (on paper or chalkboard), alphabet
flashcards
Skills : fine motor, listening,
rhyme identification, poetry skills
Read the poem aloud with your
child. Have your child identify rhymes within the
poem, underlining rhyming pairs in the same color.
Now read the pattern created by the underline
colors. For example, in the poem below, 'sing',
'thing', 'Spring', and 'sing' would be one color,
while 'December', 'remember', 'September' and
'December' would all be another color. The pattern
in 'I Heard a Bird Sing' could be red, blue, red,
blue, red, blue, red, blue.
'I Heard a Bird Sing' by Oliver
Herford
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.
'We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,'
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
Have your child build this pattern
using manipulatives. Next, show the pattern using
the alphabet flashcards. Red, blue, red, blue, red,
blue, red, blue becomes A, B, A, B, A, B, A, B.
Finally, have your child come up
with rhyming words that follow this pattern (or the
one in your example), and build a simple poem around
this rhyme structure. Have them underline the
rhyming words, use manipulatives and alphabet
flashcards to represent their rhyme scheme.
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