Rhyming books and games help children recognize how sounds work within words. Strengthen phonological awareness by trying the activities below.

• Listen to All Are Welcome and play a game of rhyming eye-spy. Spot a classroom, library, or playground object and give a clue by providing a rhyming word. For example, "I spy with my little eye something that rhymes with barker."

• Read Rhyming Dust Bunnies and play a listening game where readers identify a word in a group that doesn't rhyme. Additionally, create a set of rhyming words using this activity page.

• Choose a book to read from the Llama Llama Series and play the "Rhyme Time!" game in small or large groups.

• Share Sheep in a Jeep and then listen to the audio excerpt. Jump each time a word containing the –eep sound is heard.