Rhymes

Author: Liz Albano

Grade: 2

NE Standardds: 4.1.8 Students will identify similar ideas across a variety of narratives and stories. 4.1.5 Students will identify characteristics of different types of text.

Objectives: The students will broaden their knowledge about rhymes through looking at poetry, books, and songs. Students will listen to a story with rhymes, discuss rhymes, listen to poetry with rhymes, and find rhymes in music.

Materials: Hop on Pop by Dr Seuss

The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky

Song "Round the Clock"

Anticipatory Set: Ask students about opposites. What are opposites? Where can we find opposites?

Vocabulary: none

1. Read Hop on Pop and The New Kid on the Block.
2. Ask the students for some of the rhymes they heard.
3. Talk to the students about finding rhymes in songs.
4. Sing "Round the Clock"
5. Sing a line and have the students repeat it, all the way through the song.
6. Then sing the song all the way through together.
7. Ask the students about the rhymes that are in the song.

Closure: Discuss with the class where rhymes can be found and also discuss some examples. Review.

Assessment: Assessment will be an informal process by class discussion.

Round the clock the hours go by, Sometimes fast and sometimes slow, Tell me what the hands say, They will tell the time of day, Eight o’clock, it’s time for bed. Come with me, you sleepyhead.