State and Model the Objective 
Tell the children that they will sweep up pictures that rhyme with beep as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with sweep, such as keep, jeep, sleep, and weep.

Literacy Activities
Sweep the -eep

• Mark two lines on opposite ends of the room with masking tape.
• Spread the -eep picture cards (found below) across the starting line.
• Divide the class into two teams and have each team stand in single-file lines behind the picture cards. 
• Hand the first person in each line a broom. 
• When you say “go,” have the children with the brooms 
  • choose one -eep picture card,
  • identify it to the other children, then
  • sweep it to the other masking-tape line. 
• As the children sweep, have their teammates chant, “Sweep, sweep, sweep the ____ (e.g., jeep)!” 
• When they get to the finish line, have them leave the card, pretend to sweep back, and give the next child on their team the broom.
• Repeat this activity until all the children have had a turn to sweep an -eep card.
   

Identify rhyming words

• Explain that the children need to pretend to sweep when they hear a word that rhymes with sweep (e.g., beep, sleep, sheep, jeep, weep, keep, creep, peep).
• If the children hear you say a word that does not rhyme with -eep (e.g., ball, dog, car), they need to stop sweeping. 
• Repeat the activity with several words that rhyme or don’t rhyme with sweep.