dd(5) cannot rhyme: anyone know any good games to play?

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Recently realised that she does not know how to rhyme, which is obviously making reading much harder as she does not recognise the patterns and similarities between the words. We have always sung nursery rhymes and have numerous rhyming texts (Julia Donaldson, Lynley Dodd etc etc) and I was wandering if anyone had any good suggestions of fun games we could play to help her understand.

TIA

How about learning through games rather than a book, they pick up a lot through play without realising - Amazon have a good range

Silly Rhymes Puzzle (DK Games)

Orchard Toys Slug In A Jug

The orchard games are fab, we have a lot of the range, usually simple instructions and variations as they learn more / older children.

Thanks HMO. We have loads of orchard games but have never heard of that one, will have a hunt for it.

we have silly names for everything, less rhyming more sounds like.
Xander - pander
daddy - paddy
Mummy-(sadly!) Tummy
table - bable

the second words are not real words but at the moment, everything has a word after it has a silliness.

we have lots of lynley Dodd books but i don't think he sees the poetry just listens to the stories.

Sorry meant to add that DS1 was 4 in April.

Pass the Jam Jim is another good story

Snap cards with rhymes?

You could try the Dr Seuss things like Fox in Socks they have so many rhymes it might sink in!

I was also going to suggest Dr Seuss - Hop on Pop and Cat in the Hat, etc... May be of help?

Another vote for Dr Seuss, and the stories have a nice feelgood message too. We like the Lorax, Did I ever tell you how lucky you are, and the Sleep Book. I used to say blatent things like 'Hey that rhymes!', or 'what else could it be'.
You could also practise chanting the verses, clapping out the rhythm and thinking up alternative words. Like jinglejen we have silly phrases that we use like easy peasy lemon squeezy, curly wurly girly etc.
The other thing to think about is her learning style. DD1 is not a blender, and uses context and whole word guesses rather than than school's method. Some of the ORT Songbirds books are good because they ask things at the back like 'How many other words do you know that begin with pl-, str- etc. DD1 is also 5 and doesn't get this at all-believes that there are only five possible answers, one for each of the vowels. So we've used a dictionary to find other words.

Thanks for all suggestions everyone. Will give it all a try and see what she enjoys.

any julia donaldson book is good for rhythm and rhyme too

if you read them out loud and stop before you say the rhyming word, there's a pretty good chance that most kids finish the line for you with the right word, hence rhyming without even realising that's what they're doing... we then play 'ooh how did you know that?!' to reinforce the words that rhyme, then play 'ooooh, can you think of any more words that rhyme with...'

We've got all the julia donaldson books and have read them ever since she was old enough to enjoy them, and she could finish each line very quickly, which was why i was surprised to find she didn't understand what rhyming meant, I just assumed she did. I'm now doing the 'oooh, can you think of anymore words that rhyme with...' bit which I clearly never have done

dd1 had trouble getting the rhythm bit right - she could read it all perfectly, rhyme, spell, whatever, but to listen to her trying to read out rhyming stuff was torture... so we had all 3 marching round the room to the 'beat' and banging drums, going 'd d d d d d d d d der, d d d d d d d d d der'
tragic
but she's got it now!

this parenting stuff is exhausting - whoever knew that just merely reading was never going to be enough?! i should have been warned!

I know, I kind of naively assumed that she would learn to read at school and we would just read with her and listen to her read at home but it seems to be the other way round

There is a set of books by Colin Hawkins which are excellent for learning rhyme for spelling words ~ Pat the Cat/Mig the Pig/ Tog the Dog/ Zug the Bug/ Jen the Hen
www.amazon.co.uk/Pat-Cat-flip-page-rhyme/dp/1905969007/ref=pd_sim_b_img_4
Pat the cat is very fat and wears a hat and sits on a mat in his hat is a bat and a rat fancy that!

Thanks, will have a search in the library