Authentic+Instruction


 * Licensure Area**: Special Education (k-12)


 * Title and Audience**: Identifying Rhyming Words, Reading, 3rd Grade Level

**Objectives:** 3.1.spi.1. identify and/or select rhyming words.

 * Materials:** pencil, paper, computers (with internet), and worksheet with poem on it.


 * Description:** I am going to give the students a short poem, that I either make up or find, that has a lot of rhyming rhymes in it. While I am reading the poem to them, they are going to circle the words that rhyme. After we discuss why these words are rhyming, we are going to go to a computer lab and go to [|Poetry for Kids Free Online Rhyming Dictionary]. I am going to ask the students to write their own poems that rhyme, and they can use the rhyming dictionary to help them if they need it.


 * Scaffolds**: Using the rhyming dictionary would be a scaffold in this lesson. There will be some students that rhyming will come easy to and they will be able to think up words on their own. Then in other cases it will be really hard for others and they will have to look up rhyming words.


 * Technology to Support Authentic Instruction**: The website will help direct them in using rhyming words. It will show them all the words that anyone one could ever think of to rhyme and they can use those for their poems. I used a kids rhyming dictionary so they would know what the words are and what they mean, and they weren't getting words that they had never heard of.