The document provides instructions for an activity to help students identify rhyming words. Students will be given rhyming picture cards and blank rhyming strips to glue two rhyming pictures and one non-rhyming picture ("oddity") on each strip. The teacher will first demonstrate completed example strips. Then students will make their own strips by finding rhyming picture pairs from the provided cards and adding a non-rhyming picture as the oddity. Students will take their completed rhyming strips home to have family members identify the rhyming picture pairs.

1. Oddity Rhyming Strips
Objective: Identification of rhyming words
Rationale: By comparing and contrasting pictures, students will practice identifying
rhyming sounds.
Materials: Blank rhyming strips (page 42), rhyming picture cards (pages 43–44),
completed oddity rhyming strips, glue
Preparation: Copy two blank oddity strip pages for each student plus extra pages for
your examples. Copy each rhyming picture card page for every student,
plus extra pages for your examples. Then, make four to six completed
strips to use as examples. To do this, cut your extra copies of page 42 into
strips and cut apart the rhyming picture cards. Next, glue (in any order)
two rhyming pictures and one non-rhyming picture on each strip.
Procedure:
• Seat the children at a table. Show them one of your prepared oddity rhyming strips.
• Today I am going to show you several strips with three pictures. Two of the
pictures will rhyme, and the other will be a trick picture, as it does not rhyme
with the other two. Okay, let’s begin.
• Name the pictures with me. ____________, ____________, and ____________.
(Student’s name), which picture does not rhyme? Great! ____________ and
____________ are rhyming words, so the ____________ is the trick picture.
• Continue with the other picture strips. Have the students name the rhyming pairs
and identify the trick picture.
• Now we are going to make our own rhyming strips. I will give you each some
rhyming pictures and some oddity strips. We will look at the pictures to see if
we can find a rhyming pair to glue on one of your strips. After we have glued
on a rhyming pair, we will then add a trick picture to your strip. Pass out the
pages and assist the students as they make oddity rhyming strips.
• Continue making strips until the allotted time is up. Take your rhyming strips
home; see if your family can find which two pictures rhyme for each strip.
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2. Rhyming Strips
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3. Oddity Rhyming Picture Cards
glove dove house
mouse hook book
lock clock moon
spoon gum drum
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4. Oddity Rhyming Picture Cards (cont.)
skirt shirt cone
bone mat rat
truck duck pen
hen man pan
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