stop and shop

Overview

The children will hop and stop at a shop as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with shop, such as hop, pop, top, mop, and stop.

Literacy Activities

Get ready to shop

• To make a mop, attach several strands of yarn to one end of a craft stick.
• Have the children help identify the items (or graphics) that rhyme with shop.
• Talk about the items as you set up the shop (i.e., A mop can wipe up slop and glop. Be careful not to drop the pop.).
• Put up the "Stop at This Shop" sign near the shop.

Hop to the shop then stop

• Lead the children in hopping around the room until they get to the shop and you say "Stop!"
• Have the children read the "Stop at This Shop" sign then hop into the shop to look for things that rhyme with shop.
• Hold up items and ask questions like "Is this a top?" and "Does it rhyme with shop?"
• Invite the children to take turns asking a friend if they would like to buy something from the table that rhymes with shop  (e.g., a top, a mop, a lollipop).

More Practice

Listen for target words in a text

• Display the Stop at a Shop target text large enough for children to see.
• Read the text to the children, pointing to each word in left to right sequence, and emphasize the words that rhyme with shop.
• Invite the children to repeat words that rhyme with shop with you as you read it again. 
• Help the children recall which words they heard in the text that rhyme with shop.

Produce words that rhyme with shop

• Remind the children of the words they heard that rhyme with shop (hop, pop, mop).
• Ask each child to think of a word that rhymes with shop (support as needed).

Recognize rhyming words 

• Have the children repeat a set of 2 words (e.g. shop, hop). 
• Ask the children to hop if the words rhyme and stand still if they do not rhyme (support as needed). 
• Repeat with other sets of words: (e.g., stop, drop; plop, flop; tan, mop; crop, cat; pop, top).