Description

Between the ages of 3, and 6 children continuously improve their vocabulary, building on the knowledge they learn every day.  Rhyming words also play a vital role building the Child’s vocabulary; using a slightly different part of their memory to that of other standard means; to build children’s vocabulary.  These cards; known as the Rhyming Activity; are a great way to introduce rhyming words.  Challenge the Child to find other words that can rhyme together, and show them how to build rhyming phrases, introducing them to poetry.

Illustrations on the Rhyming Activity Cards

• 12 large cards with 4 illustrations on each
  • a header image, i.e. ‘crown’
  • 3 smaller images, one of which will rhyme to the header image, i.e. ‘clock’, ‘cage’ or ‘brown’
  • at the reverse of the card, the names of the 4 images are listed.  This helps the teacher to overcome the colloquial definitions used for some images.
• vibrantly coloured, high definition images of real ‘things’ against a white background
• delivered in an A4 transparent plastic envelope for storage on the shelves

Size and Contents

• 12 cards – 22cm x 22cm / (8.5″ x 8.5″)
• 3 counters (to mark the correct answer)
• Stored in an A4 plastic envelope – 33cm x 24cm / (13″ x 9½”)

Related Products

• The classified card activity; what does not belong? will help the Child with this rhyming activity
• Facial expressions cards, require the Child to name the facial expression they see.  Once again, this activity builds their phonetic abilities

Further Reading and References

1. The starting point is the “I spy” game.  Jordan Eliza of “A Montessori Story.com” provides excellent information in her blog, “How to teach your Child to read, the Montessori way”
2. Alternatively, read “rhyming words matching” from Montessori Album.com