 Help!!, How do you teach someone to rhyme? |
| hsmomma |
  Sep 17 2004, 10:05 AM
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I can't teach my dd how to rhyme. I don't know if she's just not listening or doesn't understand. We've been working on this for a few weeks. Am I just rushing her? I tried lullabies, poems, and writing the 2 words that rhyme on the board. When I ask her to pick out the 2 that rhyme, she doesn't know. I sang one line from her favorite song and she still couldn't pick out the rhyming words. How can I help her? Any ideas? She's always looking at the beginning part of the word. The example I gave her was using mop. Go down the alphabet and change the first letter to make new words. Showing they all rhyme. I probably confused her more.
 I hope I posted this in the right place! If not, I'm sorry. Nancy |
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| school2 |
Sep 17 2004, 10:25 AM
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Hi Nancy,
How old is your daughter? Sometimes my kids just don't want to do stuff on a given day and it has nothing to do with whether they can do it or not...they just don't want to  But, we love to rhyme so I thought I would chime in my  We play a rhyming game where the first person says a word ie:tree , the next person has to say a rhyming word ie:free and so one .. last one to rhyme is the winner. Also we play a rhyming story or goofy song game...I sing or say the first part and they have to fill in the blank: ie: I went to grab the mop the police man told me to________<---kid has to fill in the blank Or else he would feed me_________<" My balloon he would take and _______<" It sounds really goofy but my kids love it  Lisa |
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| shelbygt |
Sep 17 2004, 05:57 PM
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what a great idea lisa!
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| JanetP |
Sep 17 2004, 08:43 PM
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My 5 yo dd has had trouble understanding what "rhyme" meant. Her first inclination is to match the first letter of the word. So to her Cow and Cake rhyme. We've practiced this by pointing out rhyming words in books and having her listen to the last part of the word: say something that ends in "ake".
Hope this helps a little. |
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| Appliejuice |
Sep 17 2004, 09:10 PM
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My son had a hard time learning rhymes. I think he was in first or second grade when he finally caught on. I don't remember what we did to help him
 . My girls had no problem with it. I hope you are able to figure this out. 
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| hsmomma |
Sep 18 2004, 01:10 AM
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Thanks for your help! I will try your ideas. She is 8. Maybe I'm just being impatient. I always think she's slower at certain things because she's left handed, has astigmatism so bad she's almost legally blind, and plain not interested. My 3yo is already drawing shapes, cutting, and is very coordinated. These are things she didn't really start doing until last year. She has known her alphabet for a long time and still says d for b and vice versa. Sometimes I feel like I'm not doing it (hs) right, you know?
Thanks again!! |
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| chocolatechic |
Sep 18 2004, 08:13 AM
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I taught my kids to rhyme with
cat hat mat bat rat sat pat then moved on to cake lake take rake bake etc. till they "got it" |
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| Donna |
Sep 18 2004, 10:03 AM
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These are all good ideas. I can barely remember teaching my kids about rhymes. They liked rhyming books such as those by Dr. Seuss so I think it was just a matter of defining rhyme since they were already familiar with the concept. I probably defined it by rhyming both real and nonexistent words through all the consonants to a similar sound like ....
boy coy doy foy goy hoy joy koy loy moy noy poy qoy roy soy toy voy woy xoy yoy zoy Of course I asked them to join in and they were making up all kinds of words that rhyme. |
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| Appliejuice |
Sep 18 2004, 02:47 PM
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My girls did this and they have a blast. My 3yo joins in with, "Daddy, does blue and blue rhyme?"  I just remembered what we did for the boy. This is from LLATL blue or red books. They made flip books. Take a piece of paper strip, write the last few letters as in "oy", then make smaller squares with different letters on each one. Staple the square on the strip next to "oy". The child will flip through the squares to make new words like b oy, t oy, j oy, etc. Does this make sense? Anyhoo, that is what we did .
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| AKHomemom |
Sep 18 2004, 05:09 PM
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I pretty much get this but one part has me stumped - maybe it's not enough  but help me please:....mop ....stop .... ???? ....pop What would you put in place of the ???? I'm sure the answer is very simple and I just can't figure it out because I'm being too anylitcal and concrete. I am a Concrete Sequential learner after all  (just learned this this week )
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| CareyJ |
Sep 18 2004, 05:24 PM
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slop! |
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| AKHomemom |
 Sep 18 2004, 05:51 PM
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| *tc* |
Sep 18 2004, 07:58 PM
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I could be way off base, but maybe she's not ready for this yet. I've found that when I start to get frustrated because dd isn't getting something, it's good to take some time off and work on something else. Usually when we come back to it, she grasps the ideas/concepts a lot better and then she can't be stopped.
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| school2 |
Sep 19 2004, 09:23 AM
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....mop
....stop .... ???? ....pop What would you put in place of the ???? |
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| Appliejuice |
Sep 19 2004, 09:45 PM
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It is good to brain storm.
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| ahdarakjy |
Sep 20 2004, 07:48 PM
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I agree with school2- maybe she just doesn't want to do it. My 7-year old girl is a little ditsy like that sometimes too. As for switching d and b- I was worried about that too because my kids do/did it. Someone told me that it is pretty common for kids to do that for awhile and it doesn't necessarily mean something's wrong. |
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| hsmomma |
Sep 21 2004, 12:03 AM
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Thanks! Something so simple at my age is just so difficult for her at her age. I have a hard time accepting things as they are.
Donna, I'm always reminding her to give me "real" words. Poor baby. That's why I love the forums. They help me to be more patient and understanding with her. Nancy |
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| chocolatechic |
Sep 21 2004, 07:17 AM
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I helped my DD with this by saying that the "b" goes with baby and it looks like a pregnant mommy. The "d" goes with derier(?) [your backside...in French] and lookes like the backside. I am not suggesting that you do just that, but it worked for DD. |
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| momster |
Sep 22 2004, 11:29 PM
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I had a hard time getting my six yr old to understand that rhyming words meant that the words sound the same. What sounds like cat? hat. What sounds like mice? nice. Dr. Suess is excellent for teaching this... but she still had a hard time.. I think some kids just take longer than others. Tonight she was rattling off an entire list of rhyming words! lol... Now, if she does that tomorrow during her lessons... thats another story!
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| bev |
Mar 31 2005, 07:48 PM
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I know this is an "old" topic, but I'm glad I took a peek. I was beginning to
think that my ds was the only one who could not rhyme. All the suggestions are great and can't wait to give them a try.
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