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Concerns 1. Classroom management 2. Parent involvement 3. Time management

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**Early Childhood Literacy Podcast**By: Sarah Carrier and Brennan Williams

This literacy podcast is all about rhyming! It covers the first grade literacy PASS skill number two. We chose to focus on this skill because rhyming is essential for improving phonological and phonemic awareness.

This podcast takes you through an age-appropriate book entitled, //Giraffes Can't Dance// by Giles Andreae, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees. This book was chosen because of the plethora of rhyming words throughout. We read three pages from the middle of the story, and encouraged children to check out the rest of the book at their local library.

We then provided a few websites for children to do at home or in their spare time with their parents! The websites are:

http://pbskids.org/games/rhyming.html

-This website has so many educational activities for young students! This particular game is a rhyming game where they are given a rhyming family and are given both correct and incorrect options, and they have to choose the word that fits into that word family!

http://tinyrul.com/rhymefirst

-This tiny URL was created for the purposes of this podcast, to make it easier on the listener to go to the website. The website that this links to is the scholastic site. Scholastic is a wonderful literacy resource for teachers, parents, and students. The game on this site, is another rhyming activity similar to the first one, but it also uses pictures to represent the word along with the word itself. The student just clicks on the picture at the top and then clicks on the picture below that has a corresponding rhyming word. There is only one correct answer for any given word. The directions are straight forward, and the game is tons of rhyming fun!

To wrap up the podcast, we provide an at-home activity for students to do with their parents. We walk them through how to create their own rhyming memory game with at least six rhyming pairs of words!

Podcast music:

//Bongolia// - The Incredible Bongo Band

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