Rhyming rock

Skills
Children can rock out to a rhyming song they make up with word families. Children who understand word families have an easier time learning to spell and decode words.

Learning Stages

A word family is a group of words that rhyme and have the same spelling pattern. For instance dog, hog and log are in the _og word family. Children who understand word families have an easier time learning to spell and decode words.

Young children find the _at family the easiest, so begin there if the other word families seem difficult.  If your child needs help coming up with a song, start with a song or rhyme you already know, like Hickory Dickory Dock, and substitute your rhyming words.