Rhyming Words Activities

Summer club aims to push reading

Just before doors opened on the first sign-up day for the summer reading club, about 50 kids crowded against the Waterville Branch Library entrance, some with faces pressed against the glass, peering inside, eagerly awaiting high noon.

As the door clicked open, children scurried through the door and immediately lined up at the registration table where they picked up passports for a world of adventure. They won't be globetrotting by plane, boat, train, or car, but rather by the way of written words.

With a theme of One World, Many Stories, the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library's summer reading club already has grabbed the attention of thousands of area residents, including 300 who signed up June 6, opening day, at the Waterville branch.

Karen Wiggins, branch manager, said that was the highest first-day number in the Toledo-Lucas County library system.

On a rainy morning late last week, youngsters who want to participate in the reading program trickled into the Waterville library where red, green, pink, and red construction paper hot-air balloons dangle overhead, decorations in keeping with the summer reading club's theme.

As her daughter Emma, 8, and son Carter, 11, signed up for the summer reading club, Jodie McKee stood nearby, keeping a close eye on her 18-month-old son Trevor as he inspected anything at his eye level. Emma and Carter had asked if they could participate again this year in the program, Mrs. McKee said.

Emma, who likes mystery books, and Carter, who is a fan of sports-related books, both said they like to read.

The summer reading club "just gives me something to do," Carter said. The Waterville family visits the library once or twice a week, he said.

Assisting them at the registration table was James Gee, 13, of Waterville, who helps participants post their reading progress. He hands out prizes, such as coupons for fast-food restaurants and coloring books.

Last year about 800 children participated in the summer reading club.

"I think kids like reading and it gives them something to do in the summer. It is a fun thing they can come in and do at the library," James said.

New this year for the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library summer reading program: signing up online, such as from home computers or from mobile phones. The added technology is being offered as an innovative way to engage readers, said Rhonda Sewell, spokesman for the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, and it could push up the overall summer reading program participants.

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Children are more receptive, if their study lessons are made easy and interesting to learn. Teaching children rhyming words is not an easy task. Thus, teachers can follow some interesting activities and games in their class. Teaching rhyming words is advantageous in improving speech communications, like understanding phonic, syllable and words, stress and music. Teaching rhyming words include, writing activities which will also help children gain knowledge to write correct words and spellings, building vocabulary and word power. If you add brainstorming activities too, like riddles, story telling, puzzles and assignments, it will enhance both learning and teaching methods. Form 3 groups and assign a name to each. One can either conduct activities like search rhyming words from a text or can give the children some words and ask them to find out rhyming words from the same. The group that searches for more rhyming words should be declared the winner and of course they should be getting small prizes like chocolates, etc. to motivate them further. Assemble all the children together and form a circle. All have to stand and pass a ball to each other, in sequence. You can play some music. When the music stops, the first child holding the ball is excluded from the game, and has to mention a word followed with a rhyming word. The next child has the provide another rhyming word. While playing the game you could give them hints on searching rhyming words or else after the game. Here you can gather various pictures of animals, flowers and birds. Give children an example like 'Jack and Jill, went up the hill', etc. before you start the riddles. Group them into two. Ask them riddles one by one. The group that scores high by answering the riddles faster, wins the riddle activity/quiz. You can make the riddle activity more enjoyable by asking the loser group to come up with a poem or riddle with the same rhymes. Later on, you can introduce them word families that include rhyming scheme, rhyming stanzas and homophones. When the children understand the basics of rhyming words, you can teach children how some words have same pronunciation but different spellings, such as - sight, site, right, rite. The words, which are pronounced similarly, with different spellings are called homophone. Homophone is one of the types of rhyming words.

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