What rhymes with moose? Yesterday’s blog talked about phonological awareness, the ability to divide words into sound bits and then put them together differently. This is a 
critical and fundamental skill for learning to read. Finding words that start with the same sound is one way of practicing, finding words that end the same is another. Rhyming can be done anytime, what ends like bus? car? van? train? (Warning: do not use the vehicle in the photo as a clue!!) what ends like day? night? anywhere, what ends like bear? goat? sheep? Make up nonsense words when you can’t find a rhyme, as in orange and purple. This playful use of language is not just kid’s stuff, adults call it poetry. Advertising is word science when it comes to rhyme and alliteration. As before, turn your moose loose, or should that be muse luse, and play.
