Rhythm and rhyme activities

Rhythm sticks are one of the best tools to teach a range of early phonics skills. They are fantastic for syllables, segmenting, body percussion, and music.

"Rhyming Basket" Song & Lakeshore Learning Vowel Teaching Tubs

Learn how to practice rhythms with this budget-friendly and fun rhythm game in your elementary music classroom.

Use the Build a Name STEM activity as a get to know you activity in the first week of school. Pair with Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow.

Check out these free rhyming clip cards to help your students practice this important pre-reading skill. Add them to your small groups and

Identifying rhyming words is an important component of phonological awareness. It helps young children hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in words. Developing a student’s phonological awareness is important to developing a good reader. A simple way to explain rhyming words to students is they are words that have the same sound at the end. Young […]

We're focusing on practicing rhythms and preparing kindergarten students for quarter notes and eighth notes (ta and ti-ti/ du and du-de). We’ll start with steady beat activities then move to whole group instruction, small group practice, and finally a meaningful wrap up to bring home what your kindergarten musicians learned. I’ll share specific examples, sample dialogue between you and your students, and things you can use in your classroom- including a free worksheet!

Get little bodies moving and making a rhythm with this fun activity! This activity is great for children that are preparing to learn to read. Rhyming and patterning games support children in developing cadence and pacing necessary for reading.

If you want an amazingly simple tool for developing rhythm, fine and gross motor skills, and getting your kids moving, invest in som...

This free printable game is a great rhyming activity for kids in preschool and PreK. Just move around the board, say the picture, and name a rhyming word. It's a fun way to build phonological awareness!#phonologicalawareness #rhyming #preschool