State and Model the Objective
The children will make a fake snake with playdough and recognize and produce words that rhyme with fake, such as snake, make, take, and bake. 

Literacy Activities 
Make a fake snake 

• Tell the children they will be making fake snakes and demonstrate by rolling a cylinder of playdough into a snake shape. 
• Give the children enough playdough to make a fake snake and point out that fake and snake rhyme. 
• Invite the children to say the rhyme, "fake snake" while they roll the playdough back and forth. 
• Tell the children to shape their snake into a circle and pretend that the snake is asleep. 
• Invite the children to say the rhyme, "wake snake" to try to wake up their snake. 
• Allow the children to shake their snake as they say the rhyme, "shake snake." 
• Help the children recall words they heard in the activity that rhyme with snake, and repeat the rhyming pairs (e.g., fake snake).

More Practice 
Read a rhyming text to the children 

• Ask the children to listen for words that rhyme with snake as you read the Fake Snake target text (see below).
• Allow the children to repeat predictable phrases (e.g., “fake snake”) with you as you read the text to them again. 
• Help the children recall which words in the text rhyme with snake. 
• Reread the text and have the children act out the story with their fake playdough snakes.

Produce words that rhyme with snake 

• Remind the children of words that rhyme with snake (e.g., fake, make, wake). 
• Help the children think of other words that rhyme with snake (support as needed). 

Recognize rhyming words 

• Have the children repeat a set of two words (e.g., fake, rake). 
• Ask the children to shake their hands in the air if the words rhyme and keep their hands still if the words do not rhyme. 
• Repeat with other sets of words (e.g., wake, shake; cake, gum; take, bake; lake, sake; flake, truck; make, brake).