Rounding up the Rhymes

Iowa Department of Education

In this self-contained upper elementary classroom, the teacher selects a familiar text that the class has already read for meaning. The class then reads the text to identify pairs of rhyming words within the story and identify pairs that have the same spelling pattern. Using new words that share a spelling pattern with one of the rhyming pairs, they identify the rhyming pair that matches the new word and then use the rhyming pair to help them read the new word.