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  • Introduction
  • Play with Rhymes
  • Play with Sounds and Words
  • Try It
  • Wrap Up
  • Standards

Resources (PDFs)

  • Self-Assessment
  • Learning Log
  • Mystery Sound Games
  • Best Practices
  • Standards

Vocabulary

  • phonemic awareness: the ability to recognize that spoken words are made up of separate sounds (phonemes, the smallest units of sound), and to manipulate those sounds in speech
  • phonics: the understanding that letters represent the sounds in words
  • phonemes: the smallest units of sound
  • phonological awareness: the ability to recognize that words are made up of a variety of sound units
  • nonsense words: made-up words, used for the phonemic principle being taught
  • sound matching: the ability to match words that begin or end with the same sound

Play with Rhymes

Before watching this video, read the text below. When instructed, watch the video from the beginning to end.

  

Rhyming is a helpful first step toward phonemic awareness. When children play with rhymes, they listen to the sounds within words and identify word parts. For example, the /at/ sound in the word mat is the same /at/ sound in cat, rat, sat, and splat. Children typically learn to recognize rhyming words first and generate their own rhymes later. It is important to recognize that these skills are not always learned on a schedule. For some children, recognizing rhyme can be difficult. You can use different methods to help develop children’s skills.

  • Have children listen to and identify rhymes in books. Before reading, ask children to listen for rhyming words and raise their hands when they hear them. Or, stop before you get to the rhyming word and have children supply it.
  • Prompt children to produce words that rhyme . Both real words and “nonsense words” are useful, such as Peggy and leggy; turtle and Yertle.
  • Provide opportunities to recite rhymes in song. Music is a natural part of a child’s world. They can be active participants, clapping, snapping, and adding their own motions to songs. For example, “I’m a little lizard, my oh my! My skin has scales, it’s nice and dry.”

In this video, you’ll see educators use rhyming games, songs, and read-aloud books to teach phonemic awareness skills. As you watch, look for effective strategies used by the educators in the video and jot down answers to this viewing question in your Learning Log.

  • How do the educators use rhyme to develop children’s phonemic awareness skills?

Review

What is phonemic awareness and why is it important?

  • Phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize that words are made up of separate sounds.
  • Phonemic awareness also includes the ability to manipulate sounds in speech.
  • Phonemic awareness lays the foundations for learning to read and write.
  • Research shows that children with good phonemic awareness skills are more successful in learning to read and write.
  • Phonemic awareness can be integrated into other learning areas. In the video, children learned about reptiles in “Rhyming Reptiles,” while also learning phonemic awareness by suggesting rhyming words (snake, take; lizard, blizzard).

Why is rhyming an important skill for children to learn?

  • Recognizing rhyming words is a basic level of phonemic awareness.
  • Rhyming requires that children listen closely for sounds within words.
  • Children who recognize rhyme learn that words are made up of separate parts.
  • An early goal is to have children listen to a pair of words and decide whether or not the words rhyme.
  • Eventually, the goal is to have children generate words that rhyme.

How can educators teach rhyming skills to children?

  • Use music and songs to teach rhyme. Sing active songs that invite children to use movement. Fingerplays such as “Itsy Bitsy Spider” invite active participation in a rhyming game.
  • Use books and read-aloud stories to teach rhyme. Rhyming texts, both fiction and nonfiction, support literacy in general and help children learn phonemic awareness skills.
    • Before reading, ask children to listen for words that rhyme.
    • Encourage children to raise their hands when they recognize a rhyming word.
    • Stop and have children supply a rhyming word in the text.
    • After you have read a poem or story aloud, ask for rhyming words. (What word rhymes with mittens?)
  • Use games to teach rhyme.
    • Toss a beanbag onto a picture grid. Have children think of a word that rhymes with the picture ( fish, wish; goat, boat).
    • Play “I Say Night.” Teach children to respond with a rhyming word: I say night. You say (right.) Or I say bread. You say                         .
    • Play rhyming partners. As children “buddy up” for an activity, give one child a random word, for example, mitten. The first child to suggest a rhyming word becomes that child’s buddy.
  • Use nursery rhymes to teach rhyme. Traditional nursery rhymes are fun to teach. Children can learn them quickly and enjoy repeating them.
  • Make a chart of rhyming words. (If possible, connect the words to concepts being taught in the curriculum, such as colors, plants, weather, etc.) Add a word each day (pink, clink, wink, sink, blink). Once you have a bank of words, have children create their own silly rhymes. (Wink, wink, wink. Watch me blink.)
  • Have fun with rhymes. Children enjoy saying rhymes in different voices. Whisper them, shout them, sing them, and chant them.
  • Children need not suggest real words when supplying rhymes. Nonsense words (alligator, shmalligator) enable children to focus on the sound rather than the meaning. In time, children will develop the ability to generate real words that begin with the same sound, contain the same sound, or end with the same sound.

Reflect

Think about the learning environment at your own program as you answer these reflection questions in your Learning Log.

  • What daily activities do you do with children to teach phonemic awareness?
  • What did you learn that you will take back to your learning environment and put into practice?

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Why Is Rhyming Important? - The Measured Mom

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Do you know what’s one of the best predictors of how well a kindergartner will learn to read? It’s if he knows his nursery rhymes.

Jack and Jill went up the hill. 

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. 

Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?

Jack Sprat would eat no fat. His wife would eat no lean.

All those nonsensical verses from your childhood really do matter.  They matter, because they rhyme.  

Why is rhyming important?

1. Rhyming teaches children how language works.  It helps them notice and work with the sounds within words.

2. Rhymes help children experience the rhythm of language.  As they recite nursery rhymes they learn to speak with animated voices. Someday they’ll read with expression, too.

3. When children are familiar with a nursery rhyme or rhyming book, they learn to anticipate the rhyming word.  This prepares them to make predictions when they read, another important reading skill.

4. Rhyming is important for writing, too.  It can help children understand that words that share common sounds often share common letters.  For example, the rhyming words cat and bat both end with –at.

5. When listening to rhyming songs and poems children create a mental picture, expanding the imagination.

6. Because rhyming is fun, it adds joy to the sometimes daunting task of learning to read.

Also read: How to teach your child to rhyme

 

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More about rhyme.

An essay on the importance of rhyme and its role in poetry.

In the previous lesson on rhyme, we spoke strictly about its varieties. In the same lesson, which I will divide into two parts, I will publish two articles, or rather, even excerpts from textbooks on the versification technique of modern poets. The essays are very informative: they also mention the forms of poems, types of rhyme, the concepts of "bad" and "good" rhyme, the mention of verbal rhyme (is it as defective as modern critics used to think) and much more.
I hope the material will be of interest to you! :)

T. Bondarenko

Rhyme

Let's start by stating a paradoxical fact. Very many people who write poetry cannot give a clear answer to the question - why, in fact, rhyme is needed in poetry. Silent about this and manuals for beginners. Even on a site dedicated to rhyme, Rifma.com.ru, I could not find an answer. Alas, even serious people are confused about this. So in the book "the theory of rhyme" by V. Onufriyev we find the following mumbling:

..."Rhyme is the consonance of the ends of poetic lines,
..."creating a sense of their unity and kinship;
... "one of the most striking and characteristic expressive means of poetry.
... "Mayakovsky noted its semantic meaning:
......" it returns you to the previous line, makes all the lines, "
... "...forming one thought to stick together."
... "Speaking in an organizational capacity, rhyme emphasizes
... "the ends of the verses, forms pauses after itself,
... "giving the opportunity to comprehend the lines and enjoy the euphony of the words ...

Apart from the obvious stupidity that the rhyme "forms" pauses, everything else is indistinct mumbling. About the creation of kinship, unity, enjoyment of euphony, and the opportunity to comprehend...

And the answer is simple: rhyme is a RHYTHMIC element of verse. Again - his majesty the rhythm! Rhyme, of course, can carry another load, but the main thing that makes rhyme rhyme is the fulfillment of a rhythmic function.
Let's explain on the example of
So let's say, a blank verse can be written
"Above the gray plain of the sea, the wind gathers clouds ...
or
"Over the gray plain of the sea
" The wind of the clouds gathers
or
"Over the gray
" plain of the sea
"the wind of the clouds collects
, etc.
The line - the MOST IMPORTANT rhythmic unit of the verse - here turns out to be designed only purely typographically. The sound structure of the verse itself allows a very ambiguous breakdown into lines. In the absence of rhyme, the line structure of verses is blurred, the most important rhythmic component is sharply depleted.0003 Therefore, white verses, after the introduction of rhyme, forever found themselves on the sidelines of versification. And now, in almost 100% of cases, they are a surrogate produced by incompetent people. (blank verse is traditionally used in drama - but this is a slightly different area than just poetry - and I will not discuss this circumstance here).
Once again we emphasize the main purpose of rhyme - the RHYTHMIC function. Everything else is OPTIONAL. Theoretically, rhyme can be located anywhere, but in Russian versification it is traditionally located at the ends of lines. Of course, rhyme does not create any pauses. Pauses create a rhythmic division into lines. (although not 100% required, lines without pauses after them are possible).
Well, let's take the previously analyzed example:
"Only occasionally flashes on"
"Dolphin's back on a blue wave ..."
Here the pause is created by typographic division into lines, and not at all by rhyme. It is enough to write it differently:
"Only sometimes a dolphin's back flashes on a blue wave ..."
To see that it is the other way around here - rhyme is created by dividing into lines, and without it, rhyme disappears, and poetry in general. Another example from the so-called Paradise verse
"The priest went to the market. To look at some goods"
The rhyme "bazaar-goods" is clearly audible here. But it's not all about harmony. In construction
"I went to the bazaar to see some goods" or
"I went to the bazaar to see some goods"
the feeling of rhyme disappears. Although the sounds are the same.
This example clearly shows that consonance feels like rhyme precisely at the ends of phrases when it is used to reinforce the string (phrase) rhythm.

Of course, rhyme is NOT the ONLY rhythmic element of the line division of a poem. The division into lines is still based, first of all, on phrasal division - division into easily pronounceable, relatively complete in meaning and grammar, and rhythmically organized pieces. The rhyme is a SECONDARY though VERY POWERFUL means of string structure.
There are quite fancy classifications of rhymes. However, reading such works is of interest only for broadening one's horizons. And for practical purposes, it's almost completely useless. Therefore, we will focus only on what writers of poetry need to know.

I will give an excerpt from the "theory of rhymes"
. .. "If words are consonant with each other, then they say that they rhyme.
... "In fact, it is not words that rhyme, and not even sounds inside words
..." (let alone letters), but phonemes and their combinations.0004

If there are correct provisions, here again a methodological error: In fact, it is not sounds and not words that rhyme, but LINES. So in the above example, "on - the back" is perceived as a rhyme only with an artificial typographical division into two lines. And in itself, the consonance of individual sets of phonemes outside the framework of the lowercase rhythm is in no way a rhyme, even if it is clearly audible. In addition, in a sense, the letters rhyme. Statistics show that poets prefer to use rhymes that also coincide in spelling, and to a certain extent avoid using phonetically accurate, but literally different rhymes. However, this should rather be attributed to a certain tendency to read printed verses with the eyes.

So what is rhyme?
Rhyme is a rhythmic sound element that performs the function of amplifying and emphasizing the string (phrase) rhythm. In Russian versification, end rhyme is used - the consonance of the ends of the lines.
Why end? There is no convincing answer to this question yet. Personally, I think this is due to the fact that the beginning of the line is more clearly defined than the end. Earlier, when describing the intralinear rhythm, the fact was noted that lines with different beginnings are perceived as rhythmically different (iambic and trochee; dactyl, amphibrach and anapaest). While the difference in line endings does not create a sense of a different rhythm. Therefore, from the point of view of rhythm, it is more useful to rhythmically emphasize the weaker elements - the ends of the lines.

So, rhyme is the consonance of the endings of lines (more strictly - poetic phrases). The main rhyme-forming role is played by the coincidence of STOCKS. Although a rhyme is possible, built on the coincidence of only one shock sound /sea-boat, field-years/, combinations with a larger number of matching sounds are usually used.
Here it is necessary to pay attention to the confusion in terminology - assonance is called both a rhyme where only one stressed vowel matches and nothing more, and vice versa, a rhyme where a stressed vowel does not match, but a sufficient number of consonants and unstressed vowels / cloud - apple / . It seems to me that it is still more correct to call a rhyme where stressed vowels do not match - dissonance / as it is sometimes called /. And a rhyme where only one stressed vowel matches - assonance. However, the issues of terminology for practice are not so important.
The opinion is often expressed that dissonances are not rhymes at all. In the light of what has been said, it is clear that the answer to this question should be given on the basis of whether rhyme performs its main function - rhythmic - emphasizing the ends of lines. But such an answer cannot be given in the abstract. In one verse, dissonance may sound like a rhyme, but in another it does not. Here is an example of a verse built entirely on dissonances http://www. stihi.ru/poems/2003/09/10-1483.html Here the dissonant rhyme sounds quite satisfactory.
There is even an opinion that assonance - the coincidence of only one stressed vowel - is "not a rhyme". But this already comes from stupid aestheticism. And it can lead anywhere. Indeed, in poetry, such a rhyme often does not sound very good. But not in all cases. But in songs, assonance rhyme is a common thing. Which is quite understandable. When singing, only vowel sounds are sung, it is on them that the emphasis is placed / just do not mumble about the "vocalization of consonants" by Vysotsky /. In addition, in the song, the string rhythm is also emphasized by musical means, so the requirements for the "quality" of rhymes are lower there.

At first glance, it may seem that the ideal rhyme would be an exact repetition of "frost-frost", "mirror-mirror", or the classic "boot-shoes". /Such rhymes are called tautological/. If the theory of euphony and sound similarity were true, then it would be so. However, in reality, such rhymes create a very unpleasant impression!
So take the lines from Okudzhava's song (apparently experimental - everywhere except for the last two stanzas there are tautological rhymes):
[i]"She walked about the wire
"Waving her white hand
"And Morozov's passion grabbed
"With her calloused hand...[/i]
Here the hand-hand rhyme sounds so unpleasant that people immediately changed it to
"waved her white leg"
The reason for this is that a pleasant rhythm for a person is not just a repetition, but a COMBINATION of repetition and DEVELOPMENT, MOVEMENT!
Or in other words - RHYTHMICALLY ORGANIZED FORWARD MOVEMENT. Marking time, running in circles - emotionally empty, and even disgusting. Exact repetitions in rhymes create a feeling of marking time, moving in a circle, chewing rubber. /in music, such things are called - bubblegum (bubble gum) / It should be borne in mind that starting from the line level, not only SOUND, but also MEANING becomes an important component. Words that sound the same but have different meanings are perceived differently. For example:
"And although we are almost strangers
"Visiting my house almost ..."
or
"In the midnight cold delirium
"I am delirious over bumps in the marsh ..." than hand-to-hand. And, accordingly, such a rhyme is usually regarded not as bad, but as cool. Moreover, even words that are formally grammatically cognate can rhyme normally if they are far enough away in meaning. Well, let's say "I'll forget it, I'll wake it up" Or, for example, from the classics:
"When I fell seriously ill...
"I couldn't think of a better idea...

"Verbal", and even one-root rhyme - by Pushkin! From a formalist point of view - terrible! But in real speech practice, the meaning of the word "sick" is far from "could not" and therefore, at the semantic level, they are not perceived as having the same root. And the specialist rightly regards this rhyme not as "terrible" but as "spectacular". But "boot - low shoes" - at all levels: both sound and grammatical and semantic is perceived as tautological. And such a rhyme will almost always sound "bad".
We emphasize once again that the perception of rhyme depends on the meaning of the content of the verses. In particular, in meaningless verses, single-root rhymes such as "tomorrow-breakfast", and even those with different roots but very close in sound "burnt-tempered", sound much worse. The same can be said about poems that seem meaningful, but devoid of action, dynamics, when the content of the verse is marking time.
Somehow I had to listen to an author's song with very precise rhymes and a very static plot - the feeling that I was chewing a sole for several minutes - an obsessive impression that there was an endless repetition of the same thing (which, of course, was aggravated by the monotonous musical style of the bard song).

ABOUT "VERBAL" RHYMS

Special mention should be made of the so-called "verbal" rhymes. A term widely used by semi-literate "experts". But not used by specialists. In fact, we should not be talking about "verbal", but about grammatical rhymes. For example, "fell-walked", "tortured-jumped", "flew-crouched", "killed-asked", etc.
Such rhymes really, usually do not sound very good. But the point here is not that they are "verbal", and not even that they are "easy" to invent. /according to statistics - the most words in the Russian language that rhyme in this way/. And the fact that grammatical endings of words rhyme here. "al-al" "el-el" "il-il" ...
That is, the famous "shoe-shoes" peeps through here. These are rhymes of a tautological kind - rhyming parts both in sound, grammar, and meaning - are one and the same.
However, they still do not sound as rude as "low shoes". This is due to the fact that grammatical endings are not so strongly isolated in the sense of the word as the roots of words.

Semantic perception focuses on the root, and the root is different here. "tortured" and "jumped" are different words and very far in meaning from each other, therefore the rhyming part "-al" is perceived not as a literal repetition as a low shoe. But in a brain-fucking verse, where the meaning is not involved, the same rhyme will sound worse.
The same can be said not only about the "verbal" rhyme, but about any other grammatical rhyme, for example, desire-consciousness /any-any/. thieves-bad /noy-noy/ etc. Just due to the peculiarities of the Russian language, this happens much more often with verbs.
And "verb" itself has nothing to do with it. So "congratulated-put" - in all respects a full-fledged rhyme, because consonance is formed not only by the coincidence of the ending "silt", but the main rhyming element - the stressed vowel - is located in the roots of words.

Even in the time of Pushkin, attempts were made to "ban" "verbal" rhyme. There was even a poet who wrote an entire poem without using a single (!) "verbal" rhyme. The very fact that now his name is not known to anyone except specialists speaks for itself. But in Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman", for example, 20% of rhymes are "verbal" ...
In any case, of course, I agree that most of the hacky rhymes among beginners are "verbal" and that novice poets should avoid grammatical rhymes. And not only because they are bad, but also because they are too light. You need to learn to overcome the constant temptation - to do not "the right way", but "the way it is easier". And it's not just about verbs - I had to meet poems entirely built on grammatical rhymes, although not containing a single verb!

And again, I want to remind you that it is not sounds or words that rhyme, but lines. Even more than that - lines in a particular poem. As we have already seen, not only sound, but also meaning plays a role in the perception of rhyme. Therefore, there are no rhymes that are absolutely "bad" or absolutely "good".
Let's say, rhymes traditionally considered "classically" bad
"I-me" "you-myself" .....
And here are examples:
"I once walked there"
"But the north is harmful for me . ..
"Sigh and think to yourself"
"When the devil takes you..."
You can of course, patting a classic on the shoulder, say "well, Pushkin is forgivable..." Yes, of course, classics also have blunders and failures. But first you would need to check yourself - are you really well versed in the things that you undertake to judge? Does Pushkin need your "forgiveness"?

RHYME 2
ABOUT "GOOD" AND "BAD" RHYMS

....."Dirt is a substance in the wrong place"
.....saying of chemists
I would beat out this saying in golden letters. There is nothing "bad" or "good" in and of itself. Everything is good only in its place. Of course, there are "bad" rhymes - these are those that usually sound "bad", especially in the hands of beginner versifiers - they are almost 100% complete. It is advisable for beginners to avoid such rhymes. Until they develop good hearing and taste. There are rhymes that sound good most of the time. But it is not worth raising all this to an absolute.

First, poetry does not consist of rhymes alone.
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Rhyme is important, but not the only component. Even the sound in verse is far from being determined by rhyme alone. Unfortunately, such banal things have to be constantly reminded. Someone believes that poetry is rhyming, someone - that word-weaving, someone - that poetry is a heap of images, someone - that a riot of feelings, etc. They are all wrong, of course. All this is in poetry, in different proportions by different authors, but poetry does not come down to one thing.
Rhyme is a poet's tool. And it's stupid when a tool becomes an end in itself. Of course, the master must own the instrument. But you don't have to be a virtuoso at all. And even if he knows how to masterfully rhyme, he should not bite out of the blue at all. There are no free cakes - and for exquisite rhymes, the poet often pays with a failure in other components of the verse. The author has the right to focus his attention on other components of the verse, albeit to the detriment of the quality of the rhyme. You can write quite worthy poems using hackneyed and gray rhymes. And you can write no poetry, although with "good" rhymes.

The best carpenter is not the one with the most expensive and ingenious planers. And not the one who knows how to juggle chisels. Undoubtedly, it is interesting to look at a carpenter who knows how to juggle with axes, but such wretches have a very distant relation to carpentry. And it says nothing about the quality of the products of such a carpenter.

Secondly, rhyme, being far from the only element of verse, must be in harmony with the rest. So, a rumbling rhyme is quite appropriate for poster poems, but will be out of place in an elegy or philosophical reflection. A bright rhyme - but only in one pair of lines, against the background of the rest of the gray rhyme will "stick out", unless such a selection is justified by the content of the verse. Better evenly "bad" rhymes than such a non-builder. Well, like a piece of parquet among the asphalt site - it looks just stupid. Somehow I had to make a similar remark to the author, but, alas, he did not want to understand it at point-blank range ... The use of obviously "bad" rhymes can be a completely conscious device. See for example the verse http://www.stihi.ru/poems/2001/07/07-29.html where the author specifically selected the worst rhymes. Moreover, even the absence of rhyme can be used as an expressive means: http://www.stihi.ru/poems/2002/07/13-171.html
Of course, without special justification, the quality of rhyme should not fall below the level of the city sewer. But this should be attributed to ANY OTHER component of poetry.
Reaching the top in everything at once is the lot of geniuses, and even then, only in individual masterpieces. And to demand this, even from a genius, in every verse is simply stupid. Especially from mere mortals. By the way, they called the king of Russian rhyme - you know who? And in my opinion, not without reason. *) And the fact that he remained little known to the general public - only proves the thesis that rhyming is not yet poetry.
Let's take, for example, a series of rhymes by one author, written out in a row.
myself-you, I-me, scolded-driven, decided-sweet, ladies-epigram,
days-his, could-pledge, steppe-his, sometimes-tear,
alone-silence, myself-wife, breguet-lunch . exclaim - what a monstrous graphomania! But this is Pushkin. The rhymes are written in a row. But not in a row along the lines, but the last rhymes in each Onegin stanza are taken. One can, of course, breed demagoguery about the "progress" of poetry since the time of Pushkin. (It will be demagogy, because even then such rhyming was considered weak). And you can get rid of the ideas about the inherent value of rhymes in themselves. And try to understand why exactly at the ENDS of stanzas Pushkin preferred to put weak rhymes. And if you think about it and analyze the sound, then the answer is easily found. Strong rhyme would, roughly speaking, give the impression of an exclamation point at the end. And weak - creates the effect of ellipsis. So that it turns out a soft ending and no immediate continuation is expected. A pause is created to move on to the next stanza. This effect is further enhanced by the adjacent rhyming of the last couple of lines. As if the light is dimmed before dimming and moving on to the next fragment of the video sequence. Check - clearly place the ellipsis at the end of each Onegin stanza - and make sure that he will be completely in his place there. But typographically it would not be very nice. As I have said before, a good poet should avoid using punctuation other than easily guessed. And here Pushkin skillfully creates the desired effect by purely poetic means, without resorting to typographical ones.
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*) D.D.Minaev

RHYTHM 3
EXTENDED RHYTHM

Let us now return to the thesis that it is not words or sounds that rhyme, but LINES. This means that proper rhyme need not be restricted to a final stressed vowel with adjacent consonants. Let us reconsider Pushkin's previously cited lines:
"When I fell seriously ill"
"And I couldn't think of a better one"
The consonance connecting these lines does not really boil down to "I fell ill - I could not" For clarity, we cut the lines like this
". .. fell ill
".. could not
here you can immediately see the coincidence of the vowel "a"
"... sick
"..
could not but this is not the end of the matter!
"..kU fell ill
"..could not think
Thus, the real consonance of the lines turns out to be much richer than the formal one fell ill, could not! Or let's take, for example, the fact that some were going to forgive Pushkin generously: "I-me"
"I used to walk there too
"But the north is harmful for me ...
Cut off for clarity:
"... lyal and I
"... for me
Considering that the letter E in the word "me" is pronounced the same as "and" in the first line, then the consonance is
"... LYAL AND I
" ... FOR ME
is much richer than the formal me-me. But that's not all - in these lines the stressed vowel on the second syllable
"There once walked AND I
" But the north is harmful for me ...
i.e. there is also an assonant "internal rhyme". Let's take Pushkin's "yourself-you", highlighting the consonances (taking into account that in oral pronunciation I-E A-O in the unstressed position
sound similar):
"SIGHING AND THINKING TO YOURSELF
"WHEN THE DAMN GOES FROM YOU
And here again - the matter is by no means reduced to the primitive self-you [/color]

Thus, the elements that create consonance can be located anywhere in the line , and not necessarily in a row. I would call this phenomenon extended rhyme (extended rhyme), leaving the established term "rhyme" only for the final consonance formed around one stressed vowel. Extended rhyme is not such a rare occurrence. In the case when additional, non-terminal, consonances are sufficiently "rich", it is customary to speak of an "internal" rhyme
For example:
"The main cannon was no longer bored
"A glorious song sounded on the brig ..."
Here, in addition to the end complex "did not miss - ..he sounded" there is a rhyme at the beginning of the line "the main-glorious"
It should be noted that sometimes "internal rhyme" is called alliteration - a sound echo that does not perform a rhythmic line-selecting function. In my opinion, it is better to call it simply alliteration, so as not to be confused with rhyme elements. does not apply. Personally, I would leave the term "internal rhyme" only for cases when this consonance is in the same place within the line, and is regularly carried out throughout the entire verse, i.e. when internal consonance is a constant element of rhythm.0003 Extended rhyming greatly enriches the possibilities of the poet. You can use even the "weakest" end rhymes, supplementing them with the consonance of other parts of the lines, and as a result, get a completely decent sounding of poetry.
And they gathered to forgive Pushkin because they approached formally, having read the lines with their eyes and not having tried the sound. Once again I have to remind you: poetry is a sound speech. Even if there are no analytical abilities, the ears are in place. You can just make sure that the sound is normal, despite the formally "bad" rhyme.

CONCLUSION OF THE TALK ABOUT RHYME

Here I will make a digression - on the site of the stichera I constantly encounter the "deafness" of the public - the sloppy habit of reading poetry with their eyes (and even casually diagonally). Even "bulging" internal rhymes manage not to notice, paying attention only to the ends of the lines, and even then, often without even trying to sound. However, many authors, apparently, read their own poems only with their eyes, not noticing sound flaws, or even gross mistakes. But they like to play in typographic druk ... Once again I will underline the verses - the speech is sounding. And if the sound is indifferent or inaccessible to you, leave poetry alone. And if not, then at least try to develop this very hearing, and not build your deafness into an absolute truth. When I say quit poetry, I don't mean quit writing. In the end - let people have fun if it pleases them. But you don't have to imagine yourself a "poet" and have some serious hopes and claims. And even more so to pass off your exercises as peaks.
And once again - the lines rhyme not "in general" but specific lines in a particular poem. In addition to purely sound means of highlighting similar lines, rhythmic parallelism can be used, both at an obvious level (alternance) and at a less obvious level (location of caesura, word divisions, location of pyrrhias and spondees). In addition, elements of GRAMMATIC and SENSITIVE symmetry can be used.

Apparently, all this should not be attributed to the elements of the rhyme itself, although these things can perform the same function and can significantly enhance the rhyme. Conversely, flaws in all of these elements can weaken and make even seemingly "normal" rhymes sound bad. (in reality, of course, it is not the sound that changes, but the feeling of the rhythm).
And to everything that has been said, one can also add a stylistic component. In one verse, "cool" rhymes will be appropriate, in another - they will look like outright chicanery and mannerisms. Even in verse, where in principle both are acceptable, it is not always appropriate to mix styles of rhyme - often a verse in a single style sounds better. What will sound better - a stylistically very smoothly constructed line with a "weak" rhyme or a line with a "strong" rhyme, but stylistically rougher? "Weak" rhyme, in a line that sounds like a piece of natural, without the slightest violence, speech of the hero - or "strong" rhyme, but with obvious signs of artificial construction?
And finally, if the current level of poetic technique does not allow - then what should be preferred - a verse with a crooked content and correct rhyme - or a verse with well-built other components and clumsy rhyme? Of course, to each his own, but personally, in many cases I prefer to sacrifice (up to a certain limit, of course) the quality of rhyming. The main thing is that the adoption of such a decision should be conscious, and not come from deafness or a disregard for the rules of versification. A footballer has the right to deliberately kick the ball for a corner or out of bounds, but only after assessing the situation, and not out of negligence or inability to handle the ball, and even more so not because he believes that the rules are not written for him.
So, summing up the discussion of rhyme, we see that rhyme does not come down simply to the consonance of the ends of lines, or lines in general. The perception ("sound") of rhyme is influenced by many other components of the verse - rhythmic, grammatical, semantic, stylistic. And in the end, not a rhyme, not a line, but a verse as a whole should sound. And sound is not the only component of poetry. Although, of course, there are rhymes, usually bad-sounding, which are not recommended for beginners, it is not worth elevating this or that rule to the absolute. Particular attention should be paid to the "verbal" rhymes. More precisely, on any grammatical. It is not recommended for beginners to use them, because. such rhymes are hard to make sound "good". Besides, they are too easy to find, and laziness was born before us. The habit of giving yourself indulgence is hardly useful for cultivation. Of course, you can use bad rhymes as a kind of surrogate in a situation where the technique does not allow you to achieve better. In the end, people want not just to study, but to get some, albeit modest, results. But it is important to understand that you are playing by easy rules. And when learning, do not lose your head and imagine the real level at which you are.
And I would like to draw attention to one more thing - I repeat, poetry consists not only of rhymes. Poems are made up of more than just the ends of lines.
Hard work on the ability to rhyme is, of course, necessary, but teaching versification should in no way be reduced ONLY to this. Nothing else can be overlooked. And, having mastered rhyming, one should not assume that he has already comprehended everything in poetic technique.
This is just one of many components. (rhythm, strophic, sound, composition, figurativeness, style, content, etc.) I met many poems in which the author is proud of the non-banality of rhymes, but swims in rhythm and strophic, and allows a bunch of clumsy inversions and transfers, sound and semantic flaws , stylistic carelessness, blunders in content .... To a large extent, the bias in rhyme is facilitated by the remarks of semi-literate reviewers who do not know how to do anything else, how to find fault with "verbal" (sometimes "hackneyed") rhymes. As a result, the author has the impression that it is enough to start rhyming in an original and non-verbal way - and you are already in the poets. At the same time, strange monsters arise - arbitrarily crooked rhymes - if only they are not "verbal" and not "hackneyed". And the author, in response to a remark about the quality of rhymes, proudly declares that "on the other hand" they are not beaten ... Who cares, but for me the rhyme love-blood is better than love-locomotive.

Rhyming as a way of mastering phonetic skills at the initial stage of learning English

From the first English lessons, children have a great desire from the first minutes speak this language. To keep this motivation for language learning a child needs bring the perspective of “speaking” closer and support his original desire enter into the communication process.

It is rhyming that facilitates the process of memorization phrases and vocabulary necessary for communication.

Learning rhymes meets the age and psychological characteristics of children. rhyme features such as brevity, rhythm, sound repetition, is absorbed by children most quickly and easily.

Reading rhymes gives them pleasure. BUT what is experienced emotionally positively, remains in the memory of a small person for a long time, leaving a mark on his mind. Lexico-grammatical structures easily are activated in oral speech due to rhyme poems.

Primary school is the period when a child the sound side of the word is interesting. Reading rhymes, the child listens to the sounds of speech, notices their repetitions, evaluates their consonance. AT rhyming, the word takes on a special character, sounds clearer, more independent, attracts to attention to yourself. The child pronounces it with more expressiveness than in other types of speech. Children tend to rhyme familiar words, rejoicing at them recognition in the resulting combinations.

Rhyming as a memorized block creates in a child feeling of self-confidence, and the choral work on rhyming (same as choral singing) contributes to the consolidation of a group of children. Rhymes are a means of developing children's speech and its components such as breathing, diction, hearing, the ability to regulate the strength of the voice.

Reading rhymes helps improvement of speech breathing, as creates conditions for the clarity of observing pauses. Thanks to the observance of pauses appears expressiveness of speech. The meaning of rhyme in formation of expressiveness and emotionality speech is huge. Through reading rhymes baby conveys various feelings and experiences, and so must use correctly intonation means.

Sound repetition in rhyming also contributes to developing the correct pronunciation of individual sounds, words.

The important role of rhymes in the formation of diction, clear and distinct pronunciation of not only sound, words, but phrases in general. Orderly repetition of certain sounds gives the rhyme an accentuated rhythm, which and contributes to the development of correct diction.

Through reading rhymes, children develop also a moderate pace of speech. Dimension and rhythmic rhymes, the presence of close to childish image perception develops the ability remember words, phrases, ensures their quick memorization, which in turn turn contributes to the development of such mental functions like memory.

While memorizing rhymes with children in front of me as a teacher, several tasks arose: to call interest in rhyming, the desire to know it, to help understand the content as a whole, help memorize desired element(s) by heart, teach read expressively, ensure memorization the whole rhyme.

In order to fulfill all these tasks, I chose the next order of learning rhymes.

1. When choosing a rhyme, I choose the main one in it object of development (sound, vocabulary, lexico-grammatical structure, etc.).
2. I inform the name of the rhyme, translate or I semantize with the help of visualization.
3. I explain the task to the children.
4. I introduce children to rhyme by reading it two times.
5. I bring the content of the rhyme to the minds of children (I explain the general meaning, I translate while reading, I show on the picture, ask the children to guess what is going on speech, correcting their answers)
6. I work out the most difficult words, phrases, structures.
7. I organize individual repetition of words, structures,
8. Provide choral repetition of rhyming line by line twice, more if necessary. So how children cannot remember foreign language phrases and repeat the rhyme in large blocks, with memorization is recommended to break it into parts. 9. I conduct simultaneous recitation with children the whole rhyme. (last read rhyming is recommended to be done loudly)

While learning, you need to approach each student and listen to whether he is correct speaks material. If you want to, correct. Because from the third time reading rhymes, the attention of children is weakening, and the text is still not well learned, I change form of repetition. You might want to stand up and repeat while standing. On your next reading, you divide the children into two groups. Each group for queue says line by line, or competes - "whose whisper is clearer."

While reading rhymes from the first lessons, I pay attention to non-verbal components communication (facial expressions, gestures, posture), I explain to the children that reading a rhyme, he (the child) should not worry; when reciting, one should address not only to the teacher, but also to all the children. Should draw the attention of the child to the posture, expression faces, direction of gaze towards the audience or interlocutor, volume - “so that all the guys heard. "

When reciting rhymes, I pay attention children on correctness and rationality use of exhalation, teaching children to pronounce small phrases in one breath. Improving speech breathing facilitates the pronunciation of rhymes in slow pace, which in turn allows carefully work out the pronunciation of sounds, words.

Since whispering requires more clear articulation of sounds, you must enter assignments for whispering rhymes. Such a technique also contributes to better memorization rhymes because it makes children listen to the spoken text.

In order to develop a sense of tempo-rhythm, I include tasks for measured reading of rhymes and choral performance at a given tempo (slowly - moderately fast).

To form the power of the voice rhyming pronounced loudly - quieter - in a whisper or whisper - quieter - louder.

Choosing one or another rhyme, you need to determine its main purpose (working out sound, vocabulary, lexico-grammatical structure, etc. ).

Types of rhymes that I use on the initial stage of teaching English:

1. Phonetic rhymes.

Rhymes can be used to practice certain sound in phonetic exercises. This group of rhymes, due to the 4-5-fold sound repetition, allows children to clearly hear the sound, and when memorized gives repeated repetition of sound.

[e]

1. "And what is red?"
Ask little Fred.
"The flag is red,"
Says his brother Ted.

[i]

1.His pretty sister
Lives in this little village.

[au]

1 "Little gray mouse,
Where is your house?"
"I live under the floor,
My flat has no door".

2. The streets go up,
The streets go down,
And in and out
About the town.

[p]

1.Peter Piper picked a pack
Of pickled pepper.
A pack of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked.

2. Paper on the floor,
Paper on the floor.
Pick it up, pick it up,
Paper on the floor.

[w]

1. Why do you cry, Willy?
Why do you cry?
Why, Willy? Why, Willy?
Why, Willy, why?

2. "Willy, Willy! Tell me true!
Willy, Willy! Who are you?"
"I am a little boy".

2. Charges.

At primary school age, the attention of children unstable. Should be included in the lesson plan activities that reduce fatigue. This kind can become physical education minutes that take off tension, switch the attention of children, cause positive emotional mood. These rhymes with systematic repetition allow children to learn vocabulary first on receptive level, and after 2-3 lessons they are already able to repeat the text after the teacher, and vocabulary goes to the reproductive level at no cost for this study time.

Hands on your hips,
Hands on your knees
Put them behind, if you please,
Touch your shoulders,
Touch your nose,
Touch your ears
Touch your toes.
Raise your hands into the air,
To the sides, on your hair,
Raise them up as before
While clapping - "One, two, three, four!"
Stand up and look around.
Shake your head and turn around
Stamp your feet upon the ground.
Clap hands, and then sit down.
Stand up and look around.
Make a bow and turn around.
Stamp your feet upon the ground,
Clap hands and then sit down

make a bow [`bau] - bow

Head and,
Knees and toes,
Knees and toes.
head and
Knees and toes,
Knees and toes
And eyes and ears,
And mouth and nose.
head and shoulders,
Knees and toes,
Knees and toes.

My head, my shoulders, my knees, my feet, My head, my shoulders, my knees, my feet, My head, my shoulders, my knees, my feet. And we all clap hands together.

My chin, my elbows, my hips, my toes

My chin, my elbows, my hips, my toes

My chin, my elbows, my hips, my toes And we all clap hands together.

3. Grammar rhymes.

figurative memory, the child is easier through the image memorize meaning and pronunciation lexico-grammatical structure.

At the initial stage, rhymes play an important role, because they allow the child to master lexico-grammatical structure without special efforts. However, rhyming does not entail ownership of the structure. After memorization rhyming needs more work to start playback in memory and the use of a lexical unit or structures.

the verb "to have (has)"

My Family

I have mother,
I have father
I have sister
I have brother.

He Wants Some Toys

A little boy Has no toy.
He makes much noise
He wants some toys.

How Many Fingers do I Have?

How many fingers do I have?
Five on my left hand
Five on my right hand.
How many fingers do I have?

Room

I have two eyes,
And I can see
A book and a pen
in front of me.
I see a window
And a door.
I see the ceiling
And the floor.

WeCount

One, two. Look at your shoe.
three, four. Look at the floor.
five, six. Look at the chicks.
seven, eight. look at the plate.
Nine, ten. look at your pen.

the verbs "to like", "to love"

A Peacock and a Dove

This is a peacock And that is a dove.
The peacock I like
And the dove - I love.

I Love my Family

I love my father,
I love my mother
I love my sister
And my big brother.

I Like

I like a ball,
And you like a doll.
I like a dog
And you like a frog.
I like some fish
And you like a dish.

the modal verb "can"

What Can You Do?

I can swim like a fish,
I can run like a dog,
I can jump like a frog,
I can fly like a bird.

Why Can't I?

Can you tell me why
I can run
I can jump,
But I cannot fly?

4. Tips.

Children tend to reason, so they easily appropriate thoughts enclosed in rhymes and aphorisms, including them in the framework of their life experience. The “tips” in this section are very easy, contribute to the enrichment of the vocabulary, figurative children's expression of their thoughts.

Learn your lessons
As well as you can.
Be Tidy Like Nick
Not dirty like Dan.
jump and play
Run and play
That's the way
To be happy and gay.

Be polite

Always try to be polite In everything you do.
Remember always to say "Please",
And don't forget Thank you.

Magic Words

Hearts like doors will open
with ease
To very, very little keys.
And don't forget that two
are these:
"We thank you all" and
"If you please".

with ease

5. Lexical rhymes.

Through reading and memorizing rhymes vocabulary expands, and with special forms work words are transferred to the active dictionary.

Little Cats

Ann's cat is black.
Jane's cat is grey.
They often drink milk
And wash every day.

My Little Doggy

My little doggy
Likes to play
When I come home
From school each day.

Mice

I think mice
Are very nice.
Their tails are long,
Their faces are small0237 They don't have any chins at all.

A Tiger

Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night.

We Go to the Zoo

Tomorrow, on Sunday,
We go to the Zoo.
Tomorrow, tomorrow
We go to the Zoo.
There is a zebu there,
And a zebra, too.
A bear and a monkey
And a kangaroo.

Spring

Spring is green,
Summer is bright,
Autumn is yellow,
Winter is white.

6. Rhyming dialogues.

The language material of almost every rhyme can be use to compose by children microdialogues in guiding work with side of the teacher.

Dialogs in Rhymes

- What's this?
- what's that?
- what's this?
- It's a school bag
- It's a pencil
- It`s a pen
For a pupil I am

7. Limericks.

Limericks is an unusual poem of five lines. The first, second and fifth lines have three accents and rhyme with each other. Third and the fourth lines rhyme with each other, but they much shorter than the other three. Limericks are very popular in England. The founder of these verses considered to be Edward Lear (1812 - 1888). At 1960 year the English newspaper Morning Star held a competition for the best limericks.

These rhymes can also be used when working in middle classes as an element of English oral folk art.

8. Holiday rhymes

These rhymes will help the teacher prepare script for theatrical performances.

Happy Day

We have a date to celebrate
Which comes but once a year.
And so today we'd like to say
From all of us to you,
"Happy birthday! Happy birthday!
"Happy birthday to you!"

we have a date to celebrate note

New Things

New things to learn,
New things to meet,
New songs to sing,
New books to read,
New things to have,
New things to do,
In this fine New Year.

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