State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will follow Farmer Dale on his trail with a pail as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with trail, such as pail, mail, tail, sale, and rail.
Literacy Activities 
Farmer Dale and his pail 

• Read the Farmer Dale's Pail target text (see below) to the children, pointing out the words that rhyme with trail.
• Give the children paper tails or have the children make some.
• Let some children stand along a designated “trail.”
• Put on the Farmer Dale nametag (see below), take the pail, and have the other children line up behind you. 
• Tell the children that Farmer Dale will walk along a trail and feed animals that have tails. 
• Let the children pretend to give food from the pail to the animals with tails.
• Comment on how Dale, pail, trail, and tail rhyme.

Recognize rhyming words 

• Ask the children if the words tail and pail rhyme and shake your head yes.
• Tell the children to wag their tails if two words rhyme (e.g., pail, Dale; tail, sale; trail, snail; whale, cat; mail, bail; hail, mail). Support as needed. 

Produce words that rhyme with pail 

• Give each child a chance to hold the pail and think of a word that rhymes with pail (e.g., “Think of a word that rhymes with pail . . . how about tail?").