Rhyme Bites - Five Willy Wagtails, 3 lines pp

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.
• Plus more: Complete the Teachific Course: Rhyme Bites (13 mins) to find out more (free for members)

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.
• Plus more: Complete the Teachific Course: Rhyme Bites (13 mins) to find out more (free for members)