How to Learn Rhymes for Children
Rhyming is a fun way to teach children a short story and to play with different sounds. Children enjoy experimenting with sounds, and playing auditory games such as rhyming lay a foundation for success in reading. Children have been reciting rhymes for hundreds of years and learning rhymes already known in the family is a fun way to share family traditions. There also are many collections of both traditional and modern rhymes. Learning rhymes is a fun way to interact with and spend quality time with your children.
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Instructions
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Select a rhyme with a topic that interests your child. There are rhyme collections with myriad topics such as animal rhymes or ice cream rhymes. Alternatively, choose familiar and traditional rhymes.
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Look at the endings of the line in the rhyme. Try to identify the rhyming words, which have same-sound endings but different beginning sounds. Rhyming words sound the same but they are not necessarily spelled with the same letters; for example, cake and steak rhyme.
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Say the rhyming words out loud to make sure you can hear the rhymes. Sometimes the way you pronounce a word affects the rhyming.
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Read the rhyme out loud a couple of times and try to find a rhythm in the reading. Sometimes there is a rhyming word at the end of every sentence, sometimes there is a rhyme every second sentence.
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Memorize the rhyming words. Learn in which order they appear.
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Some rhymes tell a story. Visualize the story, for example, a creature in the classroom eating the blackboard. If there is no story in the rhyme, make up a story. This will help you learn the rhyme.
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Practice reading the rhyme out loud. Continue to read it out loud until you feel confident reading it.
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Learn the first two sentences by heart. Continue to learn the lines.
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Visualize the story while you try to remember the whole rhyme.
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Tips & Warnings
Find recordings of rhymes. Some traditional rhymes are set to music; this is a fun way to learn a rhyme. There also are recordings with authors or actors reading rhymes.
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