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Rhyming Words with Older Readers ~ What’s the Benefit?
We all know that helping young readers to learn to recognize and produce rhyming words is an important building block to reading. But did you know that those same rhyming words can help older readers to decode words faster and more efficiently than if they just memorized random rules and words? Older readers can use rhyming words to help them read similar rimes (ending patterns in words). Understanding how to use spelling patterns to read and spell new words benefits beginning readers AND older readers, too.
How so? If a child knows how to read night, he can use the pattern of -ight to help him read flight. When a reader comes a word he doesn’t know ask him, “Is there a pattern in that word that you already know?” Locate the pattern together and help the child read the new word based off the pattern from the known word. Struggling readers, especially, need this process to be modeled for them over and over so they can understand how word patterns relate and how to apply this strategy.
Speaking of rhyming words and older readers, have you seen All About Reading‘s adorable Rhyming Candy Hearts activity? I love it because it’s just perfect for my 2nd grader! Beyond the reinforcement of using rimes to read rhyming pairs, I also love the words All About Learning included in this sort. Great vocabulary builders! So, go check it out for yourself. It’s FREE!
Want to learn more about All About Reading? Click here to read my review of All About Reading and here to check them out yourself!
More Resources You May Enjoy:
- Using Word Family Chunks to Read New Words
- Flip a Word activity with Short Vowel Word Families
- Learning to Spell with Patterns {FREE Printable}
- Phonics BINGO Bundle Pack {6 BINGO games featuring phonics patterns}
- Activities and Printables for Beginning Readers: AT Family, ET Family, IG Family, OT Family, and UG Family
- Learning to Read by Pattern {Guest post at BOB Books}
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