• Use a variety of familiar text forms to create texts collaboratively in shared writing.
• Demonstrate awareness that work shared with an audience need revising and editing.
• Recognize rhyming words.

Activity

• Continue the rhyming fun begun in "Leap into Language 2". Read a number of sea rhymes, rhyming poems, and rhyming fingerplays to the class.
  
  
• In the context of shared reading, locate and discuss the rhyming words in each text form.
  
  
• Choose a class favourite and collaboratively write a class "copycat" rhyming text together. Invite the children to work with a class friend and create their own rhyming texts.
  
  
• As a culminating activity have the children select a favourite piece to illustrate. Display in the school corridor.

Assessment Tips from Old Tom the Turtle

• Observe and note students’ abilities to recognize rhyming words in the context of reading.

• During small group conferences, observe and note whether children are using rhyming words in the context of writing.

• Note the extent to which students are willing to revise and edit their writing. Note engagement with writing and pride in display of "final" product.