Rhyming Patterns Helping Struggling Readers

Rhyming can be really useful in teaching children with dyslexia as it draws children's attention to the sound structure of spoken language.

We know that rhyming can help struggling reading as it draws children's attention to the sound structure of spoken language.

Rhyming can provide a relatively low-pressure way of playing with sounds before asking children to manipulate individual phonemes.

Here are some activities I use in my classroom.

Give children rhyming word cards and see if they can put them in a sentence. I usually write for the children. We then talk about the rhyming words.

I then get the child to write a list of words ending in 'at' by just changing the first letter.

This print out from twinkle allows children to create different rhyming words.

See the link for this print out here

I like using rhyming for dyslexic learners because it moves from language to sound awareness and the pattern holds the grapheme in children's brains more easily.