Ship Trip

Objective

Recognize words that rhyme with ship (e.g., "Do ship and chip rhyme?") and produce rhyme words (e.g., "Think of a word that rhymes with ship.").

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Lesson Plan

Target Words:

ship
trip
dip
flip
drip

Materials:

Ship picture
Small bowls
Word cards
Towels (optional)

Overview
The children will pretend to take a trip on a ship as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with ship, such as trip, dip, flip, and drip.

Literacy Activity

Read each word card, and demonstrate the action with a paper ship.
Give each child a laminated paper ship and bowl of water.
Have each child choose an action card and read it out loud.
Invite the children to perform the selected action with his or her ship.
Say each action as it is performed (e.g., Flip the ship!), encouraging the children to say it with you.

More Practice

Ask the children if they can remember words that rhyme with ship from the activity.
Say two rhyming words, and ask the children to contribute a third rhyming word (e.g., say, “Trip and dip rhyme. What is another word that rhymes with dip?”).

SEEL At Home

Objective:
Recognize and produce words that rhyme with ship.

Materials:

Paper or toy ship
Word cards
A bowl of water

Activity: Ship Trip

Take turns choosing a word card, reading it, and performing the action with the paper or toy ship.
As you perform each action, say what you are doing out loud (e.g., Flip the ship!).
Help your child make up a story about a ship that went on a trip, using words that rhyme with ship (e.g., A ship took a trip. The waves made it dip.).
Have your child tell the story again (support as needed) as you make the ship do the actions (e.g., dip, slip, flip), then switch roles.

Standards

SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

http://education.byu.edu/seel/library/