State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will look for stars to put in a jar and recognize and produce words that rhyme with star, such as car, far, jar, and tar.

Literacy Activities
Far Star

• Cut out the star graphics (see below) and place them around the room.
• Ask the children to listen for words that rhyme with star as you read The Far Star target text (see below).
• Choose a few children to go find a star graphic while pretending to drive a car, and have the remaining children chant, "Drive a car to the star!"
• After each child in that group has found a star, have all the children say, "Put the star in the jar!"
• Invite that group of children to put the stars around the room again while the rest of the class closes their eyes and chants, "Hide the star near or far!"
• Repeat the activity so that all the children have a turn.
• Help the children think of words from the activity that rhyme with star, such as car, jar, far.

Read a rhyming text to the children

• Display The Far Star target text large enough for children to easily see.
• Read the text to the children, pointing to each word in left to right sequence.
• Invite the children to repeat rhyming words as you read the text again.
• Review which words in the text rhyme with star: car, jar, far.

Produce words that rhyme with star

• Ask each child to think of a word that rhymes with star.
• Give a child a star graphic, have him or her say the word they thought of (support as needed), then pass the star to the next child.
• Repeat so each of the children gets to share a word that rhymes with star (e.g., far, car, jar, par, bar, tar). 

Recognize rhyming words 

• Have the children repeat a set of two words (e.g. star, far).
• Ask the children to put their thumbs up if the words rhyme and thumbs down if the words do not rhyme (support as needed).
• Repeat with other sets of words: (e.g., car, jar; tar, par; scar, cat; spar, bar; char, truck; ajar, far).