📖 Rhyme Race

Carrera de Rimas

📖 Literacy & Language Emergency RF.K.2WL.K.1
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Objective: Recognize and produce rhyming words in Spanish to build phonological awareness.

⏱️ ~7 min 🧺 0 min setup · music

🧺 Materials

None needed — just the two of you.

📋 Instructions (parent)

  1. Say a word in Spanish, like 'gato'.
  2. Take turns saying words that rhyme, like 'pato' and 'zapato'.
  3. Clap each time someone finds a rhyme.

➕ Extension ideas

  • Make a silly sentence with two rhyming words.
  • Clap the syllables in each rhyming word.

🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish

Español
Vamos a buscar palabras que riman. Yo digo gato, y tú dices pato. ¿Puedes pensar en otra?

💬 Conversation prompts

  • ¿Qué rima con gato?
  • ¿Suenan parecido estas palabras?
  • ¿Puedes inventar una palabra que rime?

🔑 Vocabulary

  • rimarhyme
  • gatocat
  • patoduck
  • palabraword
  • sonidosound

Other ways to do it

⚡ 5-minute version

Find just one rhyme for one word.

🚗 Car version

Play rhyme race out loud while driving.

😴 No-energy version

You say the rhymes and your child just claps along.

🎯 California standards covered

RF.K.2 Phonological Awareness
“I can hear and play with the sounds and syllables inside spoken words.”
WL.K.1 Exploring Spanish
“I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.”
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