A Dress for Bess

Recognize words that rhyme with dress (e.g., "Do dress and Bess rhyme?") and produce rhyme words (e.g., "Think of a word that rhymes with dress.").

• dress
• Bess
• mess
• guess
• press
• less

• Large paper doll
• Real or paper doll dress
• Small paper dolls
• A Dress for Bess target text
• Child's party dress (optional)

Overview
The children will help Bess press her dress while they recognize and produce words that rhyme with dress, such as mess, press, less, and guess.

Literacy Activities
A Dress for Bess

• Read the A Dress for Bess target text to the children and act it out with the large paper doll. 
• Emphasize that many of the words in the story rhyme with dress.
• Ask the children what words they remember that rhyme with dress.
• Give the children small paper dolls and a crayon so they can make a “mess” on the paper doll’s dress with a crayon each time you say a word that rhymes with dress.

More Practice 

• Ask the children to think of a sentence they can say that rhymes with dress. 
• Invite them to share with the class. 
   

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.A: Recognize and produce rhyming words.