• Share nursery rhymes, poems, finger plays, and songs that demonstrate rhyming, repetition, and alliteration.
  
  
• Display a picture or an object from a story, nursery rhyme, poem, finger play, or song. Have students identify as many words as possible that might rhyme with the name of the object.
  
  
• Construct a list of rhyming words drawn from reading materials that are familiar to the students. Assign a word to each student. Call out two rhyming words and ask the students who have those words to act out the two words.
  
  
• Construct rhyming couplets. Read the stem and ask students to complete the rhyming word. An example of a couplet follows:
  
  I went to the circus in town
  To see the funny ___________ (clown).
  
  
• Sit in a circle and ask students to imagine going on a class trip. Then give one student a ball. That student begins a rhyming couplet by completing the following frame:
  
  "We're going on a trip and I'm taking a ____ (hat)."
  The ball is tossed to a second student, who responds,
  "We're going on a trip and I' taking a _______ (bat, mat, etc…)"
  The ball is tossed to another student who continues by starting a new couplet with a different ending.