Overview

The children will play in pretend leaves as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with fall, such as, call, ball, and haul. 

Literacy Activities

Fall leaves

• Remind the children that in the fall leaves turn colors and fall off trees. 
• Go outside to play in real leaves, or pretend to play in the leaves indoors:
  
  • Fall in the leaves 
  • Call a friend to fall in the leaves
  • Crawl in the leaves
  • Call a friend to haul away some leaves.
  • Roll a ball into the leaves
  • Call a friend to roll a ball into the leaves

It’s Fall

• Read the It’s Fall target text to the children.
• Give each child a real or pretend leaf.
• Read the text again, emphasizing the -all words, and have the children drop a leaf when they hear a word that rhymes with fall (support as needed).

Identify rhyming target words 

• Display the tree picture.
• Say pairs of words (e.g., fall-ball, wall-tall, call-all, ball-bird), and ask the children if the words rhyme.
  
  • If the words rhyme, have a child place a leaf on the tree.
  • If the words do not rhyme, have a child make the leaf fall to the floor.  

Produce rhyming words

• Give each child a real or pretend leaf, invite them to think of a word that rhymes with fall, (support as needed), and let their leaf fall.
• Repeat with a ball, letting the ball fall when the children say a word that rhymes with fall.