Today, is the last day of May. Hey, that all rhymes. What else rhymes with may? May–stay, play, hay, lay, pay, ray, way, etc. We’re having a ton of fun, Hon.
For over a month, I haven’t mentioned rhyming words as an important kindergarten readiness skill, so I can be forgiven for bringing it up again. Being able to rhyme words indicates that children can hear and separate words into sound bits. Once kids can do that, they figure out that words are like sound puzzles and they can change the bits and get new words. This is so critical for later learning to read that readiness for reading corresponds to the ability to rhyme. (It’s called phonological awareness.)
Stories that rhyme, word games, poems, and songs are some materials that you can use to help your child develop awareness of rhyming words. They all help to make this readiness for kindergarten easy, peasy, lemon squeezy.