Language Two: Rhyming Fun


Learning Outcomes
Students will:

1. Use a variety of familiar text forms to create texts collaboratively in shared writing

2. Demonstrate awareness that work shared with an audience need revising and editing

3. Recognize rhyming words


Activity

Continue the rhyming fun began 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
Old Tom the Turtle gives some hints for assessment:

1. Observe and note students' abilities to recognize rhyming words in the
context of reading

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

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