Ready-to-teach lesson
Ton and Through: Listening for the Words That Rhyme A Dollar, a Penny, How Much and How Many? - Grade 1 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
9 minutes Identify a rhyme from ending sounds and generate additional words that rhyme with one of the book's end words. An oral identification of the too/through rhyme plus at least one additional rhyming word. Essential question: How can you tell that two words rhyme even when they are spelled differently?
Materials
- The book
- Prepared excerpt printed in this lesson
- Student response materials Text to mark
- rhyme passages - too/through in the first passage; all/small available
for the word-generation step Prepared text Common coins are pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters too. And you'll know how much each is worth before this lesson's through. / Paper money doesn't look or feel like coins at all, but it can also pay for things however large or small.
Lesson sequence
1 Listen for the rhyme - 5 min Read the first passage aloud twice. Have students say the final words too and through, then decide whether those ending sounds rhyme. 2 Add a word that rhymes - 4 min Read the second passage with students. Let students choose one of its end words and say one or two additional words that rhyme with it.
Teacher key
Too and through rhyme because their ending sounds match even though the spelling is different. In the second passage, students can use an end word such as all or small as the starting point for generating another rhyme. Support & extension
- Support:
- Say too and through after the teacher, stretch the ending sound, and decide whether the two words rhyme. Extension: Ask why rhyme should be judged by sound rather than by how the words look on the page.
Assessment
- Identifies too and through as rhyming words
- Judges the rhyme by ending sound rather than spelling
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- Generates at least one additional rhyming word from a word in the second passage
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