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Home » Montessori » Pre-Reading – Rhyming Basket

Pre-Reading – Rhyming Basket

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This work is so easy and children love it. Simply fill a basket with pairs of objects that rhyme and put it on the shelf for our 3.5-year-old to explore on his own. Here is how we did it:

rhymingbasket

Step 1: Create the Basket

Montessori Services offers a ton of mini replicas of everyday objects and animals. I highly recommend buying the lot. I did it the hard way by collecting various objects over the past year or so. Safari Toobs offers wonderful mini replicas and I fell in love with mini Japanese erasers.

rhymingcollage

Step 2: Create the Cards

I followed traditional Montessori and used pink for consonants and blue for vowels. Pretty simple. I used index cards. Nothing fancy. This work does not typically come with cards to match but it seemed right for my child, so we went with it.

Step 3: Introduce the Activity

I introduced this activity at a “Circle Time”. I set it up so the “job” was to match the objects, not necessarily the cards but my son quickly jumped on sounding out the words and matching the objects to the words. Lucky me.

rhymingwork

Step 4:

Allow him time to do the work on his own, then place the work on our shelves.

Thanks for reading this post. Please leave a comment and check out other pre-reading and pre-writing activities. This week we’re focusing on ending sounds and I’ll also be introducing a few special sounds like “ch” that our son has been inquiring about. So, stay tuned!

Marnie

Tagged With: Homeschool, Preschool, Reading and Writing

About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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