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

• Talk with the children about how in the season of fall, the leaves turn colors and fall to the ground.
• Place a pile of leaves on the floor and invite the children to do the following activities:
  • Fall in the leaves 
  • Call a friend to play in the leaves
  • Crawl through the leaves
  • Haul the leaves to another part of the classroom
  • Roll a ball through the leaves

Crawl Relay 

• Split the children into two teams.
• Have each team form a line at one end of the room.
• Place piles of leaves on the other side of the room.
• Explain that you will read a picture card. 
  • If the word rhymes with fall, the first child in line will crawl to the pile of leaves, pick up a leaf, and haul (pull) it back.
  • If the word does not rhyme with fall, have the teams fall on the floor.
• The first team to have all the members haul a leaf back wins.

It’s Fall

• Read the It’s Fall target text to the children.
• Give each child a pile of leaves or a ball.
• Read the target text again and have the children drop a leaf or ball when they hear a word that rhymes with fall (support as needed).

More Practice 

Identify rhyming target words 

• Display the tree graphic where the children can see it. 
• Help the children identify a picture card and ask them if the picture rhymes with fall.
  • If the picture card rhymes with fall, have a child place the picture card on the tree.
  • If the picture card does not rhyme with fall, have the children make a discard pile.  

Produce rhyming words

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