Reader Rabbit 2 provides practice identifying and using consonant blends, compound words, vowel sounds, rhyming words, opposites, homonyms and alphabetical order. Matching rhyming words using Reader Rabbit Match Patch. Arranging names of people or things alphabetically. Some of the activities work well with the whole class, others are meant for small groups.
Students say the name of each item, discuss what the names have in common.
After looking at the word for each item, students put them into 2 groups according to whether they are compound words or not. Students use the Word Mine activity in Reader Rabbit to make compound words by matching 2 words. Make a matching game by writing compound words on paper carrots or train cars and cutting them to separate the words which students put back together. Write riddles describing compound words on index cards, put the answer on the back. Copy onto sentence strips, put in a pocket chart, students supply rhyming words orally.