Your students will just love these Valentine’s Day rhyme activities! Teaching students to rhyme is one of the first phonemic awareness activities we introduce. When we teach students to rhyme we are teaching them to appreciate that words contain individual speech sounds which can be changed to create different words. Understanding that words contain individual sounds is one of the first steps in learning to read! Matching activities are perfect for teaching and practicing the skill of rhyme. The Valentine’s Day heart matching activity is a fun way to teach rhyme while incorporating a little holiday fun. You can easily differentiate this activity by choosing how many and which matching hearts to use! When you download this activity you will