The lesson plan introduces a 35-minute lesson on identifying and manipulating phonemes to create rhymes. Students will play a rhyming game where one student holds a fuzzy ball and responds to rhyming prompts from a recording by saying a rhyming word, then passing the ball. They will also draw and label pictures of rhyming word pairs. The teacher will assess students based on their participation in the game and whether their worksheet contains actual rhyming words.

1. Maggie Noctor
Rhyming Lesson Plan
Introduction
Lesson Topic: Orally identify and manipulate phonemes to create rhymes
Length of Lesson: 35 mins
SOL: 1.4 The student will orally identify and manipulate phonemes (small units of sound) in
syllables and multisyllabic words
c) Create rhyming words orally.
Cognitive Objectives
Students Will:
Identify and manipulate phonemes to create rhyming words orally
Materials/Technology and Advanced Preparation
Materials:
Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
One Fuzzy Ball
Recording of rhyming quest
Advanced Preparation:
1. Record an audio of you saying words from the book and what they may rhyme with
2. Deciede on a student that will go first with the fuzzy ball
Teaching and Learning Sequence

2. Introduction/Anticipatory Set:
• Ask students to quietly walk to reading circle and sit
• Take Rhyming Dust Bunnies book from front desk with you.
• Read Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
• Ask students what they thought Bob was doing the entire time throughout the story?
• Ask students about the different rhymes mentioned in the book “What were some of the
rhymes used in the book?”
Lesson Development:
• Tell the students we are going to play a rhyming game today.
• Explain that they will try and be the rhyming dust bunnies and should answer the
questions on the audio with the rhyming word.
• Explain that Bob will be the voice on the recording, and that the student with the fuzzy
ball should be the only one answering at a time.
• Then the student should toss the ball to another student, who will rhyme with the
previous word.
• If a student gets stuck or runs out of rhyming words they should toss the ball back to the
teacher who will keep playing the audio.
• Play audio that asks for the rhyming words.
• If students are still able to rhyme keep going.
Closure:
• Have students go back to their tables.
• Explain that they will now draw a picture of two words the dust bunnies may rhyme with.
• Hand out the rhyming dust bunny worksheets for the students to fill out.

3. • Encourage them to draw and color pictures to go with their rhyming words
• After students have finsihed drawing their pictures, ask if any students would like to
share their pictures.
• Have about three or four student volunteers stand up and show the class their pictures and
their two rhyming words.
• When students share, ask class if there are other words that may rhyme with those words.
• Collect students worksheets
Homework: None
Assessment:
Formative:
• Listen to answers given during the review of rhymes used in the book The Rhyming Dust
Bunnies. Are the students naming actual rhymes from the book or can they not recall
any?
• Watch while students create their Rhyming Dust Bunnies Worksheet; are they using
rhyming words? Do they look confused or wait to choose their words after a classmate
has helped?
Summative:
• During the game listen to student responses, are they naming words that rhyme? Or do
they seem confused each time it is their turn?
• Collect student Rhyming Dust Bunny Worksheets, do the words the students chose
rhyme? Or did they just draw two random words?

4. Worksheet: Rhyming Dust Bunnies Worksheet
What rhymes
with
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