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This post has been co-written with Ben Wolfson, a full-time educator and assistant principal in the USA.
After the initial back to school excitement has died down, every kindergartener starts to dream about Halloween as soon as the calendar ticks over to October. While they’re thinking about pumpkins, costumes and candy, teachers can tap into this excitement by bringing Halloween decorations into the classroom. This can also be extended by finding high quality Halloween kindergarten worksheets like this rhyming words worksheet. Your students will be excited by the witch and bats at the top, while you’ll be interested in their ability to find rhyming CVC words with pictures to help them along the way.
The Importance of Rhyming Words for Kids
Literacy in the early days of the kindergarten classroom focuses on building a big enough visual vocabulary for students to begin reading short books and other texts independently.
The next step from here is to help them master their letter sounds so that they can generalize their reading skills to unknown words, and using three letter words with the pattern consonant – vowel – consonant (CVC) helps to build this skill.
Matching CVC words with pictures helps students to use their visual clues to read the new word, and this Halloween themed rhyming words worksheet helps students spot patterns between letter sounds. For example, noticing that “dog” and “log” rhyme because they share the same ending short vowel and consonant sounds will help them read “jog” and “cog” even if there’s no picture.
Preparing Halloween Rhyming Words Worksheet
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These kindergarten rhyming activities are simple to use; just download, print a class set and you’re ready to roll. The only choice you need to make is whether to use the color or black and white worksheets.
Extension Kindergarten Rhyming Activities
These Halloween kindergarten worksheets are easy for your students to understand and use independently. They just need to read the CVC words with pictures in each box and mark (either circling with a marker or coloring the picture if you choose the black and white page) the two words that rhyme. As they master this skill, you can try some of these extension activities to develop their literacy skills:
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Tell me more – the best thing about rhyming CVC words is that there’s always a couple more words that students can make just by switching the starting letter. By asking students to tell you more CVC words that share the same ending sound pattern, you’re developing their spelling patterns as well as their flexibility with language. A final piece might be for them to write down the new words that they’ve created.
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Alien or Human – in this activity, you take the rhyming words from each box and generate another set of CVC words, some of which are nonsense (or alien) and some of which are real words (or human). For example, you could give them jam, ham, yam, tam, nam, ram and vam. Have them read each word out loud for practice, and then sort into alien words or human words. This game works well as you explore digraphs and beginning sounds.
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Match the picture – for a final assessment task, you can take all the words from one box (or from the whole page as an extra challenge) and cut them up. Students then have to match the CVC words with pictures that make sense.