Rhythm and rhyme: Time to rhyme

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By Jean Evans — early years consultant and author

Introduce the children to simple phonics and phonemes with these fun rhyming activities

Time to rhyme

1 Rhyming pairs

Discover rhyme through simple matching games

EYFS Area of learning > Literacy > Word Reading

What you need

Group size: small groups.

Pairs of rhyming objects, for example, shell and bell, toy house and mouse; tray; ‘Rhyming pairs’ activity sheet.

What to do

Fill a tray with pairs of rhyming objects, such as a shell and a bell. Hold up two objects at random. Ask the children to say the names of the objects aloud. Do they sound the same or do they sound different? Discuss the meaning of rhyme with the children.

Invite a child to choose an object and find one that rhymes with it. Then, give each child a copy of the activity sheet and ask them to find pairs of rhyming words.

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  1. Joyce Kamara
    on 5 February 2012

    Literacy

    Found it very useful. Thank you

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