Phonological Awareness and Rhyming Posted June 28th 2013 |
Veronica is an experienced kindergarten teacher. Throughout her years teaching, she has seen an increase in children whose home language is other than English. When she is in the classroom teaching a new vocabulary word, she tends to say the sounds of the words very slowly to emphasize the smallest units of sounds in each word (phoneme). She also changes the sound values by overstressing her mouth movement or by clapping or holding up a finger to each new sound. Most kindergarten programs today include phonological awareness in their curriculum. In fact, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires that all public schools provide evidence-based reading instruction in kindergarten that includes five components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Rhyming and counting syllables are phonological awareness exercises used in the classroom.
Why do you think rhyming might be an important exercise for literacy development? Can you think of other exercises you might use in your classroom to promote phonological awareness?
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| Reply from Brianne Moreno posted on May 19th 2014 |
| I think that rhyming might be an important exercise for literacy development because they children will remember things like site words, and vocabulary words better because when they are said together with other words that rhyme with each other, they sound more like a song and they are more fun to say aloud with. I think that children find rhyming fun, especially at a young age and they will remember each word better so when it comes time to start learning how to read books, they will be able to recognize each word from the story. The children can be read stories that rhyme to help them learn how to read. For example, in my placement class site, the teacher read them a book that had rhyming words on every other page and after we were done reading the book I found the children reciting all of the rhyming words from memory, after reading it one time! At this young of an age, children's minds are like sponges and they will memorize things very easily.
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| Reply from april lopez posted on August 20th 2013 |
| To me, rhyming is an important exercise for literacy development because it allows children to learn what words sound alike. They can predict what word comes next. With rhyming, children hear new words that they would not hear in everyday language (like fetch and pail in “Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water”).
I would include books that have a lot of repetition such as "Brown Bear" or "Go Car Go" so that children can get more familiar with vocabulary. I would also play rhyming games with the children to let them come up with words that rhyme with a word a throw out to them. Or I would pause during a rhyming book and let the children tell me the word that belongs next. Another fun rhyming game might be to let the children think of words that rhyme with their name. Their are endless activities to do with rhyming exercises. |
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| Reply from Valerie Fine posted on August 20th 2013 |
| Rhyming words is an important phonoligical awareness skill that takes time to learn. Rhyming increases the young child's reading ability later on. First, I would read rhyming books often. It should be fun, enjoyable and at the same time interactive. Then, read it again for the repetition. Here is a game I would like to do with preschooler's. After reading a rhyming book a few times, read the rhyme again and leave out word, pause expectantly,wait for answer. If child answers correctly then say, "That's right, Cat rhymes with Hat" which reinforces learning. If child does not find a rhyme with cat, say it for the child and ask child to say it back to you. Make up silly rhyme games throughout their day, inside and outside. |
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| Reply from irene Pereira posted on August 18th 2013 |
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Rhyming is a very important exercise in children literacy development. It allows children to play with phonemes and words. Phonological and phonemic awareness are essential precursors of reading skills. Children can acquire rhyming through singing songs such as “down by the bay” or in a game of bingo rhyming even reading rhyming books. Rhyming helps children with sound recognition and segmentation which will also help them to decode and spell words later. Children enjoy creating and making up their own rhymes that are not real words but build their confidence and develops their love for learning. Teacher can encourage children rhyming by making up silly songs and letting children guess a rhyme. Making learning fun for children is important by making them active participants and key to develop their learning.
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| Reply from michele richardson posted on August 18th 2013 |
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I think rhyming is an important exercise for literacy development. It helps the children to hear the sounds in different words. Rhyming is also fun for children and makes learning into a game. Some exercises I might try using are:
A Song to Teach Phonemic Segmentation
Listen, listen to my word,
Then tell me all the sound you heard: race
/r/ is one sound
/a/ is two,
/s/ is last in race it's true.
Thanks for listening to my word
And telling all the sounds you heard!
1. Snap and Clap Rhymes
2. Begin with a simple clap and snap rhythm.
3. Get more complex as children move along in rhyming.
Clap Clap Snap fall Clap Clap Snap ball
Clap Clap Snap hall Clap Clap Snap small
4. A variation is the "I say, You say" game:
I say fat. You say _____. I say red. You say _____.
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| Reply from Byanca posted on August 18th 2013 |
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Rhyming is an important exercise for literacy development because rhyming helps children develop phonological awareness which eventually helps them learning to read. Because rhyming books use repetitive sound patterns it also helps children with memory by allowing them to memorize what tune comes next. It also helps children with articulation of the tongue when it comes to different sounds and the understanding of concepts. Something I do in my classroom is incorporate songs in Spanish as well for the English Language Learners whose first language is Spanish. I have found that they are more engaged when they are given the choice of what song to sing. Books also such a Brown Bear, Brown Bear, have rhyming in them and give children cues which allows them to associate the pictures with the print in the book. Hickety Pickety Bumblebee is a great chant for Phonological awareness and the children love it because you incorporate their names into the song and get to clap out the syllables.
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| Reply from Melonie Williams posted on August 18th 2013 |
| Phonological Awareness and Rhyming:
What we used to simply call rhyming games now has the clinical name of Phonological Awareness. One wording classifies the activity as a valid teaching method and the other is just plain fun.
Using rhyming activities helps children learn new vocabulary by making learning simple and enjoyable. As one who loves to study foreign languages, I know how dull it can be to read, memorize and repeat by rote – faccio, fai, fa, facciamo, fate, fanno.
It’s so much more fun to put a melody or rhyme to a word a see if you can get through the chant… Phono, phono, bo bono, banana fana, fo fono, mi my mo mono… Phono! We can’t possible tell our students to sit down and sit still while we do out phonological lesson. But we can quickly get their attention by asking, “Who wants to play a rhyming game?”
But seriously, I use phonology myself when doing activities such as crossword puzzles. Suppose I have a 4-letter word, blank-blank-A-R. If I don’t have other clues to use, I will start rhyming at the beginning of the alphabet, making sounds, whether it makes a real word or not, until I find a word that fits… Ar, Bar, Car, Dar, Far, Gar, Har, Jar… until I get to Zar… Oh, Czar! I’ve got the 4-letter word that fits.
However clinical the word may be, the activity is important to early learning. Any method to make learning fun will always get the child’s attention and interest for doing more. Having an enthusiastic audience helps make the lessons easier for the teacher and makes the child’s development stronger.
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| Reply from Felicia Zierke posted on August 18th 2013 |
| I do believe that rhyming is critical aspect of literacy for young children because it encourages and allows children to make associations with word families, recognition of grouping letter sounds, and it is a fun way to be introduced to phonics awareness. Word families recognizes the order of sequence to help children connect the sound. Ex: if a child can recognize the a-t sound group it is a word family used in many words such as. C-a-t, S-a-t, F-a-t his also allows children to separate the beginning of the word from the ending. Many first reader books introduce reading threw rhyme; including story's like : the fat cat sat on a hat then it was flat” Teachers can incorporate rhyme in many ways in a classroom, during circle, discussion, an just good old free center time when the teacher is interaction with her children. There are many songs, and games that encourage rhyme like the song “down by the bay” My children love this song!! especially when they get to find their own rhymes.
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| Reply from Emeseb Tabor posted on August 17th 2013 |
| When my son was three I started to teach him how to read. First, I started with phonics and alphabet letters. Everyday for ten min. we would go over the letters and the sounds. I had flash cards, books, and educational CD-ROM. My son would read with me and I would ask sometimes what letter is this or that. Twice a week I would take him to the nearest public library and he would pick so many books. Everyday we would read so many books. At the library, they have a story time for children and a lots of time they sing a song or two. It was so fun. I also would time my son for 25 second everyday the sound of all of the alphabet letter. Before he started Kindergarten, he already know how to read fluently. I was so consistent with him. Because I wasn't born in America, I thought that all children has to learn to read before they start school. |
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| Reply from Ginger Daniel posted on August 17th 2013 |
| Rhyming is an important exercise for literacy development because it allows children to become familiar with sounds of letters. The repetition of sounds in rhyming helps them to hear the sounds in a variety of words. Rhyming exercises promote phonological awareness as well. Learning about syllables is an important part of phonological awareness so having children start with dividing their name up into syllables. Then you can put the children with the same amount of syllables in their name into groups and have them in groups practice the syllables of other words as well. Also teach children continuous sounds first like m before moving on to stop sounds like p to promote their phonological awareness. Always start with the more basic parts of phonological awareness before moving on to the more complex ones. For example start out teaching children how to rhyme with words, then how to blend with words, and then how to segment with words. |
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| Reply from Katie posted on August 16th 2013 |
| I didn’t realize that the nursery rhymes I said to my children could play an important role in their literacy development. I now know that Rhyming is important because it is an aspect of phonemic awareness (awareness of how to listen to, identify, and change around the sounds in spoken language) and a precursor for learning how to read and write. Rhyming is fun for kids and helps them improve their oral language skills overall. It helps them to playfully manipulate their language, which gives them a kind of “permission” to manipulate language in other ways. One activity I would use in my classroom to help with phonemic awareness is the clapping game. The clapping game is used to introduce the children to syllables by leading them to clap and count the syllables in their own names. |
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| Reply from Helen posted on August 16th 2013 |
| CHDV 150A Helen Young, 8-6-2013.
CHDV 150A Extra credit assignment (possible 5 points)
Developmental Perspectives- Dr. Ana Garcia Nevarez
Phonological Awareness and Rhyming
Why do you think rhyming might be an important exercise for literacy development? Can you think of other exercises you might use in your classroom to promote phonological awareness?
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A child goes through a number of processes before rhyming. First, a child has to know the sound of the letters, (e.g. knowing the letter B makes the /b/ sound). Next, the child must understand that words are made up of letters sounds (phonemes), just as the child’s name is made up of letters. Sounding out the letters will make the sounds of the name, i.e. blending isolated sounds together to make a word. Then, the child must know how to identify the beginning of a word; and then knows how to separate the beginning of a word (onset) from its ending (rime). Finally, the child must know how to manipulate sounds in a given word to form a new word, i.e. to substitute sounds, by adding, deleting or transposing. Reaching the level of rhyming will help the child arrive at the speaking, reading and writing components of literacy development; therefore, rhyming is an important exercise for literacy development.
Besides rhyming, other exercises can be on syllable segmentation, alliteration (beginning sound), phoneme isolation and phoneme blending. One exercise to play in my classroom is the Silly Greetings. Photos/ nameplates of students are used. A letter is assigned to each day, (e.g. B is for the day). Children are greeted by replacing the first letter of their names with the letter of the day, such as “Bally” for Sally. Student photos/ nameplates are shown one at a time and the class greets their classmates with a “Good Morning” chant, as follows:
I say good morning to Bary (Mary), good morning to Brew (Drew), good morning to Bustin (Justin) and Balice (Alice), too!
Another similar exercise is substituting different vowels on singing “I like to eat apples and bananas”.
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| Reply from Christina A posted on August 15th 2013 |
| Rhyming is extremely important for literacy development. I had a feeling my daughters Dr. Seuss books were worth keeping after all these years. Rhyming helps a child to hear the similar and different sounds of words. It will help a child to hear the onset and rime in a word. Ryhming is fun! Silly words can rhyme with other silly words. Games can be played with rhyme. Children will learn the first steps of literacy with rhyme. Other exercises that can promote phonological awareness are Word Walls. I would introduce a new word wall each week (or when needed). I would give special attention to the first letter of each word that is placed on the word wall, isolating the phoneme. In addition I could ask the students to tell me the sounds they hear in the rest of the word, segmention. |
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| Reply from Ginger Daniel posted on August 15th 2013 |
| There are many qualities that make a teacher effective but first and foremost teachers need to have a passion for what they are doing and not just doing it to have a job. They need to be motivated, experienced and well educated in child development or a related subject not just any subject with a teaching credential. Effective teachers put forth effort in continuing to educate themselves on the most current studies being done on related topics to their field. Effective teachers truly love and care for our future generations and try their best to educate them with the time and resources given to them. You have to be flexible and creative to be an effective teacher as well. It is very hard to have an equitable and valid way to evaluate teachers due to bias and other things that may make the evaluation invalid or inaccurate. There would need to be a variety of evaluations used to evaluate a teacher. For example you would need teachers to evaluate themselves, co-teachers or assistants to evaluate teachers, parents to evaluate teachers, if students are old enough they can also evaluate teachers, and other school district employees to evaluate teachers. With the variety of people evaluating teachers there would also need to be a variety of evaluations done by these varying parties. Then all the evaluations would need to be put together and then given an overall evaluation with the inclusion of all evaluations completed. |
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| Reply from Ginger Daniel posted on August 15th 2013 |
| There are many qualities that make a teacher effective but first and foremost teachers need to have a passion for what they are doing and not just doing it to have a job. They need to be motivated, experienced and well educated in child development or a related subject not just any subject with a teaching credential. Effective teachers put forth effort in continuing to educate themselves on the most current studies being done on related topics to their field. Effective teachers truly love and care for our future generations and try their best to educate them with the time and resources given to them. You have to be flexible and creative to be an effective teacher as well. It is very hard to have an equitable and valid way to evaluate teachers due to bias and other things that may make the evaluation invalid or inaccurate. There would need to be a variety of evaluations used to evaluate a teacher. For example you would need teachers to evaluate themselves, co-teachers or assistants to evaluate teachers, parents to evaluate teachers, if students are old enough they can also evaluate teachers, and other school district employees to evaluate teachers. With the variety of people evaluating teachers there would also need to be a variety of evaluations done by these varying parties. Then all the evaluations would need to be put together and then given an overall evaluation with the inclusion of all evaluations completed. |
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| Reply from Jennifer posted on August 15th 2013 |
| Children learn how to read using 3 cueing systems; Semantic Cues, Syntactic Cues and Graphophonic Cues. Rhyming helps develop children’s phonological awareness, which is a strong connection with reading ability. It helps children with sound recognition.
Some researchers actually claim that it can be very difficult for children to learn reading without recognizing rhymes. Children love listening and reading children’s rhyming books. While reading to the children or child, you can point to the rhyming words so the child can start identifying to the sound and spelling of the words. The teacher can play rhyming sing along songs, which can help increase the children’s word pronunciation, new vocabulary words and maybe help develop on their self-esteem.
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| Reply from GULALAI SHETAB posted on August 13th 2013 |
| Rhyming put a physical pattern in a child’s brain in order to acquire the foundation for literacy acquisition. Rhyming promotes and excels language acquisition which is an essential skill for emergent literacy such as reading. As students manipulate words and sounds to create simple rhymes, they become aware of word and letter patterns that will help them develop decoding skills. Patterned sound helps to set in, be absorbed and sticks in gain the attentions of hearers, children or students.
One exercise that I like to do in my classroom to promote phonological awareness is reading aloud. I do an interactive style of reading aloud to children on a recurrent basis. I believe it is one of the most effective ways to promote early literacy development among children.
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| Reply from GULALAI SHETAB posted on August 13th 2013 |
| Teachers play an essential role in ONES’ life. An effective teacher is the one who honors his or her title and understand his/her valuable responsibility. Teachers have two roles: number one is instructor and trainer of the mind and a transmitter of knowledge. Second, they are trainer of the souls and personalities, mentor, and role model. If they maintain their roles responsibly, they will qualify as an effective teacher. Teachers should be evaluated based on variety of teaching and learning methodologies that can prevent boredom and passive learning among students. They should be evaluated by Students’ achievement, work ethics, the ability to work with others, relationships with parents from different cultures. |
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| Reply from GULALAI SHETAB posted on August 13th 2013 |
| Teachers play an essential role in ONES’ life. An effective teacher is the one who honors his or her title and understand his/her valuable responsibility. Teachers have two roles: number one is instructor and trainer of the mind and a transmitter of knowledge. Second, they are trainer of the souls and personalities, mentor, and role model. If they maintain their roles responsibly, they will qualify as an effective teacher. Teachers should be evaluated based on variety of teaching and learning methodologies that can prevent boredom and passive learning among students. They should be evaluated by Students’ achievement, work ethics, the ability to work with others, relationships with parents from different cultures. |
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| Reply from Sherrie posted on August 12th 2013 |
| I believe rhyming is a very important concept in children\'s literacy development because it is a building block for many other things. When children learn to rhyme this will make reading easier because they will see the similarities in the words. I think another fun exercise to use when teaching children phonological awareness is using white boards. Ask the children how many sounds(phoneme) they hear in a word and have them write the answer on the whiteboard (or hold up number cards). This exercise can be done either individually or in a group and have them work it out together. |
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| Reply from Kimberly Burt posted on August 11th 2013 |
| I think that rhyming is an important exercise for literacy development because it is easy to remember and catchy. Children are able to play with the sounds and come up with what they want. This is a great way fro the students to learn phonological awareness. Rhyming is also a good way for the children to learn how to spell out words. A fun way to promote phonological awareness is to get a paint stick and put the one of the letters of the alphabet at the top, then have a bunch of little pictures, (they can be pre-printed, or cut from a kids magazine etc.) the child then will choose the pictures that begin with the sound. For example if you had a paint stick with a B at the top, pictures of a butterfly, bread, ball, bear and bananas can be then places on the stick. This is a little bit of an art project as well as a fun game to learn phonological awareness. |
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| Reply from Kimberly Rodda posted on August 10th 2013 |
| Children need to learn all the five components of reading and rhyming lends itself to each of those areas. It is one of the first types of literacy development that children learn and play with. It makes reading fun. When children are read a book with rhymes in it, or play with rhyming words they are also learning the important components of language development: prosody, phonology, semantics, morphology, syntax and pragmatics. In addition the students vocabulary is increased with this type word play.
Other types of exercises that might lend itself to literacy development is playng with alliteration. One game my son and I play is Eye Spy such as, “Eye Spy something that sounds like Rat.” It’s a fun nature walk game or car ride game. When we get home we use recall techniques to remember what we saw on our trip. This can be played in the classroom as well.
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| Reply from Lorena Poon posted on August 5th 2013 |
| I strongly believe recognition of rhyme is one of the first ways that children demonstrate phonological awareness and it’s an important part of literacy development. When children are exposed rhymes they are able to develop listening and thinking skills they also build on their vocabulary. Giving the children the opportunity to hear the rhymes and through repetition will makes it a fun way for them to learn. Rhyme is also important for reading and spelling, it will help children learn words that share common sounds and common letter sequences. For example if a child can spell cat they can all spell bat. It also helps with their reading tall they can read ball. A fun way to promote phonological awareness in the classroom would be to have the teacher recite nursery rhymes and leave out some of the rhyming words. Give the children the opportunity to fill in the missing rhyming words. The children will also be able to make up their own rhyming words as the sing along.
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| Reply from Rosita Villarreal posted on August 5th 2013 |
| I think rhyming is a fun way for children to learn. The phonics and phonemes in particularly are being taught while the children are having fun. The position of the mouth and auditory stimulation are essential developmental stages that children may learn. How about a "TIC TACK TOE" crossword puzzle with CVC? That sounds like it could be fun and a good learning tool, in fact I am going to try it for a lesson plan with pre-kindergarten children for my Literacy class 150a which is being taught by
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| Reply from CHRISTINA BROWN posted on August 3rd 2013 |
| Rhyming is critical aspect of literacy development because it allows the children to make the association that word families often share the same letter sequences and once they realize they can spell c-a-n, can, they too will come to know that they also have the ability to spell man and the next door neighbor, Dan. And as discussed in my recent lecture it also allows children to separate the beginning of a word from its ending. onset and rime, which by the way I personally had forgotten. Off the top of my head I can recall a two part phonological awareness activity that I learned while working on my AA and loved to still use today when I have the opportunity to do so. (During transition to the carpet) singing willable-wallaby-woo and elephant sat on you, willable-wallaby-we, an elephant sat on me, (then I move to using the children’s names and allowing them to come up with funny rhyming words; for example, willable-wallaby-walor, an elephant sat on Taylor. Then I follow that with a syllable counting name dismissal from the carpet. This can also be the stomp name game, or even the blinking name game. |
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| Reply from Rosita Villarreal posted on August 2nd 2013 |
| Children have fun with Ryming, and while they voice the words with other words and recognize the different sounds ryming helps memorizing the word, this is a great tool. Songs are also a great tool, I would like to see a child build a book with all the new words, like a glossary. |
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