State and Model the Objective
The children will play a game to find a doodad as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with doodad, such as had, glad, mad, and lad.

Literacy Activities
Who Had the Doodad? game

• Have the children sit on the floor in a circle and tell them that a doodad is a little object whose name you have forgotten.
• Explain the rules of the game, Who Had the Doodad? 
  • One child will be "it" and stand off to the side, facing away from the circle. 
  • One child sitting in the circle will be given the doodad and will start passing it quietly around the circle. 
  • Play music (optional) or have the children say, "Who had the doodad?" while the doodad is passed from child to child. 
  • Stop the music or say, "Stop doodad!" and have all of the children pretend to hold the doodad in their hands, whether they have it or not. 
  • The child who is "it" will turn around and go from child to child asking, "Do you have the doodad?" 
  • When the child holding the doodad is found, that child will say, "I had the doodad!" and will be "it" for the next round. 
• Point out that the word had rhymes with doodad.

The doodad chant

• As a class, make up a chant using -ad words about being glad that you found the doodad (e.g., "I'm not sad. I'm not mad. I am glad because we had the doodad!").
• March around in a circle and say the chant together.
• Each time you say a word that rhymes with had, have the children raise their hands, clap, or stomp extra loud.

More Practice
Produce words that rhyme with had

• Remind the children of the words that rhyme with had (doodad, glad).
• Tell them you can think of other words that rhyme with had (dad, sad, lad).  
• Ask each child to think of a word that rhymes with had (support as needed).

Recognize rhyming words 

• Have the children repeat a set of two words (e.g., had, mad).
• Ask the children to show you a glad face if the words rhyme and a sad face if the words do not rhyme.
• Repeat with other sets of words (e.g., fad, bad; tad, Chad; lad, cat; glad, dad; pad, dog; rad, sad).