Rhyming Cards
Rhyming Words Card Decks help students acquire and strengthen their word-level reading, spelling, and vocabulary skills. Each 52-card deck contains thirteen sets of four-of-a-kind (matching) rhyming words, presented in pictures and print. Learners of all ages have fun with rhymes in effective language learning.
Description
by Elaine Kirn
Rhyming Words Card Decks help students acquire and strengthen their word-level reading, spelling, and vocabulary skills. Each 52-card deck contains thirteen sets of “quartets” (four-of-a-kind) matching rhyming words, presented in pictures and print.
New readers and English language learners are often delighted with the idea of “word families” in English (groups of rhyming words that sound the same after their initial consonants). Using the concept in phonics, reading, pronunciation, and/or spelling instruction is likely to motivate and speed up learning – especially when done with attractively illustrated materials in hands-on, interactive activities and games.
The accompanying 56-page Activities & Ideas Book provides game rules, ideas for effective word-level activities, and reproducible rhyming word lists. Beginning learners work with basic sound-symbol phonics relationships. Intermediate learners work with common and alternative phonics patterns. Advanced learners work with regular and exceptional spellings in one- and multiple-syllable words. Learners of all ages have fun with rhymes in effective language learning.
Who They’re For:
- Students aged 3-8 in primary and elementary schools.
- Secondary school students embarking on their language learning journey.
- Young adults and adults seeking to enhance their English phonics, reading, pronunciation, and spelling skills.
Besides being fun to play, Rhyming Word Card games help
- improve beginners’ visual perception as they recognize, identify, remember, name, interpret, and differentiate among letters and images; foster phonemic awareness; introduce sound-symbol correlations in the context of word groups
- present the most common 52 rimes of English – all in one-syllable words with the same vowel and final consonant spellings – in four easy-to-manage decks of 13 sets of four matches each easy to distinguish from one another
Contents
Each set includes four decks of Picture/Word Cards, each forming 52 "quartets" of rhyming vocabulary words. The cards are organized based on the concept of word families, where sets of four words share the same vowel sound and final consonant spellings. Also included is a 56-page Activities & Ideas Book, which provides detailed instructions on effectively teaching rhyming words.
Beginning Rhyming Words
This set presents the most common 52 rhymes of English - all in one-syllable words with the same vowel and final consonant spellings - in four easy-to-manage decks of 13 sets of four matches each easy to distinguish from one another.
- Deck A, containing 52 items of 3 to 6 letters each, most sets-of-four in the Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) pattern, all with the "easiest" one- and two-letter spellings of 13 different vowel sounds
- Deck B, with the most frequent spellings of 13 distinct vowels but with two sets of four ending in diphthongs; also some digraphs and consonant clusters
- Deck C, with a few different vowel sounds plus a new digraph in one set and a doubled-letter combination in another
- Deck D, with more variety in complex vowel and final consonant spellings
Intermediate Rhyming Words
This set presents 13 more sets of American-English rhymes - in (mostly) one-syllable words with the same regular (most common + alternative) vowel spellings but some differences in word endings. These four decks may require more attention than previous ones to distinguish among 13 matching sets.
- Deck E contains 52 words of 3, 4, or 5 letters that all end in -mor -nor a cluster with one of those letters. Their 12 distinct vowel sounds include one that's "r-colored."
- Deck F 's 52 items all end in (a blend containing ) -l or -r. They include not only the most conventional vowel spellings but also some unusual ones.
- Deck G helps learners to distinguish among rhymes that end in /d/, including many in simple-past verbs.
- Deck H's words all end in (sound combinations that include) / s z ch j th /. Many of these are relatively uncommon consonant clusters such as -nce, -rge, -ste, -ngs, -nge
Advanced Rhyming Words
This set presents 13 more sets of American-English rhymes - in (mostly) multi-syllable words with regular, irregular, and some exceptional spellings in their main vowels and what follows them. Among these 52 "quartets" are words and phrases that learners may never have considered "rhyming items."
- Deck I contains 7 sets of one-syllable words ending in /d/, 18 of which (out of 28) are past-tense verbs; 2 sets of two-syllable items ending in /id/; 1 set of compounds; and 1 set of 2 words + 2 sentences.
- Deck J has 9 sets of two-syllable words with the strongest stress on the first syllable; 2 of these end in -es. There's one quartet with words accented on the last syllable and three with the stress in the middle. (It's interesting that these items really do rhyme.)
- Deck K consists two- and three-syllable vocabulary in 13 sets of items that are either compounds or words with suffixes.
- Deck L offers the most variety: polysyllable items with affixes, compounds, proper names, and short phrases or sentences.
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