To help children think about words as sound, we can help them break words into smaller parts. Rhyming means blending a new onset to an old rime. Before children can produce rhymes, they need a great deal of experience recognizing rhymes. Listening to rhyming stories, reciting rhyming poetry, and singing rhyming songs should be daily activities in the early childhood classroom. Silly Sally .
Children can first try making rhymes by blending a single onset to a variety of words.
Any phoneme could become the onset in such a game. You can play Silly Billy, Silly Curly, Silly Dolly, etc. Body-coda blending . You can always stretch the vowel and say it out loud. Children find it fairly easy to break a syllable on either side of the loud vowel.