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.").
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?”).
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SEEL At Home
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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.
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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/
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Ship Trip