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Lesson Plan

Rhyme or Rime?

What’s the difference between rhymes and rimes? Your students will become masters at using and explaining onset, rhyme, and rime after this lesson.
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Learning Objectives

Students will be able identify and use onset and rime to decode new words.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Gather the class for the start of the lesson.
  • Ask, “Who can remind me what a syllable is?”
  • Listen to a few student responses and say, “Right! A word can be broken into syllables or chunks, for example the word 'writing' sounds like 'write' and 'ing' (clap for each syllable)."
  • Ask, “Can anyone think of a word that rhymes with sock?”
  • Listen to a few student responses.
  • Say, “Today we will learn a new way to break down the syllables in a word.”