Rhyme Time Flipbook

Recognizing rhyming words is essential for success with phonics and spelling. Create this pocket-size flipbook that grows right along with your vocabulary!

• 1.

  Why do words rhyme? In English, if words share the same endings, they rhyme. (Technically speaking, <EM>ending</EM> means a stressed vowel phoneme, subsequent consonant, or final unstressed vowel.) You can probably think of lots of rhyming words!

• 2.

  With Crayola® Gel Markers, write a common rhyming ending syllable on the right half of a colorful index card. You might start with –at or -ine.

• 3.

  Cut several index cards in half with Crayola Scissors. On each half, write a letter or letters that connects with the ending letters you wrote on your first card to form a word. If you wrote –ine, for example, you might write word beginnings such as m-, p-, or fel-.

• 4.

  Punch holes in the same place on the left side of all cards. Secure the halves on top of the bottom card with a brass paper fastener.

• 5.

  Flip through your book to find rhyming words. When you think of other words that have the same ending letters, fill in a half card. Watch your flipbook grow wherever you go!

Benefits

• Students identify the characteristics in the English language that result in rhyming words.
• Students record and collect rhyming words in an appealing flipbook format.

Adaptations

• Use your rhyming flipbook words to inspire you to write poetry.
• Play the "Name Game" and other rhyming games.
• Make more complex flipbooks for words that share same sounds in their middle or beginning.
• Students trade rhyme books with each other. Use the words for spelling vocabulary or to write poems.