| 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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