Building Rhyming Words Using Word Families
Equipment list
Letters of some kind (beanbags, letter tiles, wooden blocks with letters etc.)
White boards
White board markers and erasers
Explanation
Break your class up into teams of 3 or 4 depending on the size of your class.
Each team will need one whiteboard and a few markers (just in case one dies, gets lost etc.)
This lesson can be done inside or outside. Scatter the letters in the middle of the playing area and have each team choose a spot along the perimeter.
Assign each team a word family for them to write on their whiteboards. For example, words that end in -AT, -ED, -ALL and so on.
At their own pace, one member from each team with run, jog, or walk to the center and pick ONE letter. When they return another person can go. This will continue for roughly 5 minutes or until there are no letters left.
Next, they will get roughly ten minutes to try and build as many words in that word family as possible and record it on their whiteboard.
Variation/progression
Before the activity there should be some sort of introduction to rhyming words and rhyming families. Through videos, read aloud etc. To build on this activity, you can have students try to build either rhyming couplets or a longer rhyming poem with the words they built.
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