http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm

Rimes and Rhymes: A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy

 

Program description from website: “WIL's A-Rhyme-a-Week phonological awareness program features 30 different nursery rhymes. The phonograms or "rimes" emphasized in our program were first identified by Richard Wylie and Donald Durrell in 1970. Examining a list of 1, 437 words commonly spoken by children in primary grades (Murphy, 1957), Wylie and Durrell identified 37 rimes that accounted for almost 500 words of Murphy's list. In determining the order of rhymes and rimes to present each week, we are following Fry's (1998) suggested consideration of frequency.”

 

Highlights Include:

30 weekly A-Rhyme-a Week units and downloadables in Adobe Acrobat format
·         the featured nursery rhyme card
·         the rhyming picture sets
·         Riddle Rhymes
·         lesson plans

71 other take-home rhymes