Concept Development – Auditory Discrimination – Rhyming

This material is part of the Early Childhood Montessori language arts curriculum. Learning to recognize and produce rhyming sounds is an early phonological skill developed through auditory perception and verbal feedback. Working with rhyme helps the child understand that words are composed of separate syllables defined by each sound in the word. Developing rhyming words awareness also leads children to making associations between families of words. Children are able to organize words, which helps emergent readers predict words when reading. The material consists of 16 rhyming pairs of pictures to be matched using the auditory sense.