State the Objective

Tell the children that they will decorate the Rhyming Tree and recognize and produce words that rhyme with tree, such as key, sea, flee, and bee. 

Literacy Activities

Decorate the tree with rhyming words

• Display the Rhyming Tree picture (see below) and tell the children that they will decorate the tree with words that rhyme with tree.
• Lay out the picture cards (see below), label them, and place them in a bag.
• Let the children take turns picking a picture card out of the bag.  
• If the picture rhymes with tree, say, “You picked a bee, and bee rhymes with tree. Put the bee on the tree.” 
• If the picture does not rhyme with tree, say, "[Truck] doesn't rhyme with tree. Don't put a truck on the tree!".
• Review the rhyming pictures that are on the tree.

Recognize words that do and do not rhyme

• Lay out two picture cards of words that rhyme with tree (e.g., bee, key) and one picture card that does not rhyme with tree (e.g., bug).  
• Let the children remove the picture card that does not rhyme with tree.

• Repeat with other sets of picture cards.

   

Produce words that rhyme with tree

• Tell the children that you can think of words that rhyme with tree: (e.g., bee, key, tea, ski, knee, we, see, free, three).
• Invite each child to think of a word that rhymes with tree, giving suggestions as needed (e.g., How about see?”)