Learning to rhyme is one of the very first phonological skills that children acquire on their way to becoming proficient readers. This fun word building game will encourage children to understand how rhyming works.

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Before children learn to read, they must have an understanding of how sounds work within words. Rhyming helps children improve their oral language skills and is also a precursor to learning how to write. Eventually, children will start to notice that the words that rhyme may have some letters in common when written down.

For this activity:

1. Choose a CVC (Consonant – Vowel – Consonant) rhyming pattern such as ‘-at’, ‘-op’, ‘-un’, ‘-et’, ‘-it’, etc.
2. Provide all the common consonants for your child to experiment with and move around. Try each consonant as the initial sound in the rhyming pattern. 
3. If you find a real word, write it down in a list format on a separate piece of paper. 
4. Create these rhyming lists over time and use them to practise reading and phonics.