State the Objective
Tell the children that they will take care of a bear while they think of words that rhyme with care, such as bear, share, pear, wear, chair, stare, and hair.

Literacy Activities
Take care of a bear 

• Read a book about taking care of a bear (optional).
• Tell the children that you can rhyme with care: bear, pear, chair, stare, wear, square, hair, share, fair, tear.

• Show a stuffed bear or a picture of a bear (see below).

• Have the children sit in a circle and share the bear by passing it around.
• Let them take care of the bear’s hair by pretending to brush it. 
• Have the children put the bear on a chair.
• Allow them to share a pear (see below) with the bear.
• Tear the picture of a bear and allow the children to repair the bear with tape.

• Point out that share, care, and tear rhyme with bear. 

   

   

Produce and recognize words that rhyme with bear

• Ask the children if bear and care rhyme; repeat with other rhyming word pairs (e.g., hair, share; wear, pear; there, care; chair, pair; tear, dare; wear, fair)

• State two words that do not rhyme (e.g., bear, table) and ask the children if those words rhyme, shaking your head no when needed.