Rhyme Bites - What Has Four Legs?, 2 lines p/p

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Years: K-2

3 Pages

Product Code: TEAC2147

Resource Type: Classroom Resources

About this teaching resource

Rhyme Bites bring together and reward young readers with the opportunity to develop, use and understand engaging texts.

They offer over 50 traditional rhymes and finger plays, intentionally designed as 4-8 page booklets for young readers to illustrate for their own reading and rereading. They develop:

Early concepts of print,
Rhyming as a critical part of phonological awareness,
Phonological awareness,
Reading skills and strategies,
Refined reading processes and strategies through rereading,
High-frequency word recognition,
An expanding vocabulary,
Comprehension strategies,
Fluency - expression, pacing, phrasing,
Oral language,
All wrapped up in a joyous and engaging book creation and illustrating endeavour.

How to get started:

FOR TEACHERS:

Top Toolkit Tips, Tricks and Techniques - helping you and your students to be most successful

Make your own Big Book: Choose a Rhyme Bite. Enlarge to A3, and staple as a book.
Read the book to your whole class or small group.
Help young readers to join in with the reading/rereading of the text by using a pointer (such as a chopstick) to point to the words as you read.
When reading or rereading the enlarged text, you can model and teach - concepts of print; rhyming; other phonological awareness concepts; reading strategies; vocabulary; high-frequency words; comprehension strategies; fluency.
Talk about the rhyme; act it out; use it as a finger play if suitable; talk about interesting words and phrases.
Chat about the poem, especially any wonderings or noticings children have.
Model how you will illustrate your enlarged copy. Begin with the cover. Use illustrations from other sources to help you know how to draw. Notice the detail in the drawing you are observing and model how this helps you to draw your own illustration.
Have children observe pictures closely to help them in their own drawings.
Print, cut and arrange pages of the Rhyme Bite student copies. Staple.
Have children illustrate their own cover. Have them write their name on the cover, as the illustrator.
Have children illustrate all the pages of the rhyme (introducing painting, drawing, various craft techniques), page by page.
Have children share and talk about their illustrations with each other
Have children share and read their Rhyme Bite books with each other
Have children make a Rhyme BIte each week or fortnight.
Have children take their books home to read and to share with families.
Have children practice the full range of reading processes, developing skills with each reading.
Give children the opportunity to show and tell others what they can do as readers.
Make children fully aware of all the reading processes good readers use by explicitly modelling and teaching all the aspects of reading within continuous and meaningful text, by providing the opportunity to practise these regularly with you during shared reading, and to have them reflect on and share/tell about their own understanding of the fine and expansive details of what good readers do.

FOR PARENTS

Top Toolkit Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Parents/Cares - helping you and your child/ren to be most successful

Choose a Rhyme Bite. You might like to choose it with your child/ren. Print, cut and arrange pages. Staple as a book.
Read the book to your child/ren.
Talk about the rhyme; act it out; use it as a finger play if suitable; talk about interesting words and phrases.
Chat about the poem, especially any wonderings or noticings children have.
Have children illustrate their own cover. Look for pictures to help children look at the details, colours, etc.
Have them write their name on the cover, as the illustrator.
Have children illustrate all the pages of the rhyme page by page.
Have children share and talk about their illustrations
Have children read and share the book with friends and family.