How to Engage Your Students with a Simple Rhyming Chant

Today I want to share a super fun game that you can use to practice rhyming. This game would be great for your morning meeting or those little bits of time when you’re waiting to go to specials.

To play this game, you only need your thinking cap and the ability to remember this fun rhyming chant! You could also use an anchor chart or pocket chart if you wanted to have the chant for the game “live” somewhere for the students to reference, but that is totally optional.

Rhyming Chant

This is an original chant to the tune of The Ants Go Marching. I would sing it for you, but my performances are strictly for the classroom.

When using the chant, you or your students will fill in the two blanks from the song. For example.

“…We knock on the door to find the pair,
cat and rat are standing there!…”

During the game, your students will fill in the blanks. This can be done in a few ways:

1. You can generate a list of rhyming words as a class for students to pull from when reciting the rhyming chant.
   
   
2. You can provide the first word, and students can fill in the second word on their own in the rhyming chant.
   
   
3. Students can provide both words on their own.
   
   
4. You can use the Rhyming Street posters as a reference for students to choose words from.