Ghost Themed Rhyming Words
- Year groups
- Nursery–Reception (Early Years), Year 1 (Key Stage 1)
- Pages
- 3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Phonics, Language Development, English
- Topic
- Preschool Literacy Centre, Year 1 Literacy
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
This rhyming sort is a great hands on activity for recognising words that end with "ost." This is an easy and fun activity to give students who need practice with identifying rhyming words. Students will sort pictures that rhyme with the word ghost using this ghost themed rhyming activity.
How to Use:
To complete this sorting activity, students will look at a picture on a ghost to determine if the picture rhymes with ghost or does not rhyme with ghost, and then the students will place the ghost on the correct haunted house mat.
This sorting activity includes 3 pages that contains
One haunted house mat for pictures that rhyme with ghost
One haunted house mat for pictures that do not rhyme with ghost
Ghost pictures that rhyme with ghost
Ghost pictures that do not rhyme with ghost
This rhyming sort can be used in the following ways
Literacy centres
Fine motor centres
File folder activity
Add magnets to the picture cards for a baking tray activity
Small group activities
Morning work
Emergency cover plans
If making a file folder game, the teacher will place the mats on either side of the folder and use hook and loop fasteners to sort the ghost pictures. File folders create a portable activity students can complete anywhere in the classroom.
Skills assessed with these rhyming sorting mats
Students will identify words that rhyme with ghost
Students will show the ability to sort the picture cards on to the correct mat
This rhyming words sorting activity is a low prep activity. All a teacher needs to do is to print the three pages, cut out the picture cards and laminate the pages and cards if desired. The activity is easy to set up and to put away and store.
This download includes a PDF with 3 usable pages.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Recognise which of eleven given words share the -ost rhyme sound with ghost.
Sort word cards into rhyming and non-rhyming categories based on sound rather than spelling alone.
Distinguish true rhymes, such as coast and toast, from words unrelated in sound, such as key, band, and pan.
Teaching tips
Cut apart the card page (page 3) into individual cards before the lesson, since the cards are printed together on one page rather than pre-cut.
Read each word aloud with students rather than relying on sight alone — this is a phonological-awareness rhyme sort, not a spelling-pattern match, so a word like coast still rhymes even though it is spelt -oast rather than ghost's -ost.
Lay the two sorting mats (Rhymes with Ghost / Does Not Rhyme with Ghost) side by side so students have a clear physical space to place each sorted card.
Skills covered
Rhyme recognition — students identify which of eleven words share the -ost sound with ghost, such as coast, boast, and toast.
Auditory discrimination — students distinguish true rhymes from words that merely look similar or are unrelated in sound, such as key, ring, and pan.
Word sorting — students physically categorise cut-apart picture cards on two labelled sorting mats.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
Which included words don't obviously look like they'd rhyme with ghost?
Coast, boast, roast and toast — they share the sound of ghost but are spelt -oast, while most and post match its -ost spelling exactly, so students need to rely on sound rather than spelling.
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