• K — OE1.1 explore sounds, rhythms, and language structures, with guidance and on their own
• K — OE2.1 identify, orally, words that rhyme and words that begin or end with the same sound
• Grade 1 — B2.1 use understanding of the sound structure of spoken words to orally isolate, blend, and segment phonemes
• Grade 2 — B2.1 use phonics knowledge, including an understanding of the sound structure of words, to read words

BC

• K — Language features, structures, and conventions: phonemic and phonological awareness, including recognizing rhyme, alliteration, and sound patterns in spoken words
• Grade 1 — Language features, structures, and conventions: phonological awareness, including identifying and producing rhyming words and recognizing sound patterns

• K — Children demonstrate phonological awareness by recognizing rhyme and alliteration in spoken words.
• Grade 1 — Students demonstrate phonological awareness by identifying, producing, and working with rhyming words in oral language.
• Grade 2 — Students use phonological awareness, including knowledge of rhyme, to support reading and writing.

• K — Recognize, apply, and adapt rules and conventions: demonstrate awareness of rhyme and sound patterns in oral language
• Grade 1 — Recognize, apply, and adapt rules and conventions: identify and produce rhyming words and recognize sound patterns in spoken and written language
• Grade 2 — Recognize, apply, and adapt rules and conventions: apply knowledge of word families and rhyme to support reading and spelling

• K — Demonstrate an awareness of words and some sounds in spoken language, including the ability to recognize and produce rhyming words.
• Grade 1 — Demonstrate an awareness of sounds in spoken language, including recognizing and generating rhyming word pairs.
• Grade 2 — Demonstrate awareness of sound-symbol relationships, including using knowledge of rhyme and word families to decode and spell words.

• K — GCO 4: 4.1 demonstrate phonological awareness, including the ability to recognize and produce rhyming words in oral language.
• Grade 1 — GCO 4: 4.2 demonstrate phonological awareness, including identifying and generating rhyming words to support reading and writing.
• Grade 2 — GCO 4: 4.3 use strategies to make sense of texts, including applying knowledge of rhyme and word families to decode unfamiliar words.

• K — Use knowledge of phonemes to recognize and produce rhyming words orally, including identifying whether two spoken words rhyme.
• Grade 1 — Use knowledge of phonemes to isolate, blend, and segment words orally, including using awareness of rhyme to support word recognition.
• Grade 2 — Apply phonological awareness skills, including knowledge of rhyme and word families, to support reading and spelling of new words.

• K — understand basic concepts of print including directionality, word, space, letter, and sound; recognize and produce rhyming words in oral and shared reading contexts.
• Grade 1 — understand basic concepts of print including directionality, word, space, letter, and sound; identify and generate rhyming words to support word recognition and phonological awareness.
• Grade 2 — apply growing knowledge of word families and rhyme patterns to read and spell words with common endings.

• K — CCK.2 Represent key ideas and events in a logical sequence and with detail, including engaging with rhyme and sound patterns in oral language and shared reading.
• Grade 1 — CC1.2 Represent key ideas and events in a logical sequence and with detail, including recognizing rhyme and sound patterns as features of language and text.
• Grade 2 — CR2.1 Use a variety of strategies to comprehend written and oral texts, including using awareness of rhyme and word families to decode unfamiliar words.