Rhyming words
Recognise and produce rhyming words; join in with predictable phrases and rhymes in stories and poems; learn to appreciate and recite poems by heart
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Try this together
When you read a rhyming book to your child, do they join in and predict the rhyming words — and can they come up with their own rhyme for a simple word like 'cat'?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs
explore and replicate the rhythms and sound patterns of literary texts such as poems, rhymes and songs
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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