READING STRATEGY

THE HUNGRY
THING TEACH/MODEL
“Rhyming words are two or more words that
sound the same in the middle and the end.”
“Listen carefully as I say these two rhyming
MATERIALS:
words: ham, jam. Jam has /am/ and ham has
HUNGRY THING ENVELOPE /am/ so they rhyme.”
PICTURES FOOD CARDS
HUNGRY THING SCRIPT “Do ham and jam rhyme?”’ (Yes!) “What
LESSON FROM: makes them rhyming words?” (They sound
“TEACHING READING the same in the middle and the end)
SOURCEBOOK, 2ND EDITION “Now listen carefully as I say two more
COMMON CORE” words: rice, roll. Let’s see, rice has /ice/ and
roll has /oll/. So rice and roll do not rhyme.
ADAPTED FROM “THE
Do rice and roll rhyme?” (No).
HUNGRY THING” WRITTEN BY
“If I wanted to come up with words that
JAN SLEPIAN AND ANN rhyme with fig, what parts of the word
SEIDIER. would stay the same? The /ig/ would stay
the same, as in big and dig. Can you think of
another word that would rhyme with fig?”
Pull out pictures cards: nut, peach, and
bean.
“I’m going to point to a card and say the
name of the food. Then I will say a word that
rhymes with that food on the card. (Point to
the picture of a nut) This is a nut, a word
that rhymes with nut is cut. Nut has /ut/, Cut
has /ut/. They both have /ut/ so they rhyme.
Do the same thing with peach and bean.
“I am now going to tell you a story about a
Hungry Thing who comes o town. The
people in the town want to feed the Hungry
Thing. They ask it what it wants to eat. For
some reason, the Hungry Thing can’t say
the name of the food it wants to eat. Instead
it can only say a word that rhymes with the
name of that food.
Select one student to wear the Hungry
Thing sign/envelope, everyone else will sit
in a circle and be given food picture cards.
The Hungry Thing student will stand in the
middle. Then go around and have each
student same the name of the food on their
card.
“I’m going to tell you the story of the
Hungry Thing. Listen carefully because each
time the Hungry Thing asks for food you
must check to see if the name of the food
on your picture rhymes with what the
Hungry Thing wants to eat. So If the Hungry
thing said “pilk” whoever had milk on their
card would say, “milk” and then come up to
the Hungry thing and feed it by putting their
card in the Hungry Thing’s envelope.

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