One of the word study activities we sometimes do is called Reading and Writing Rhymes.  "Reading/Writing Rhymes is perhaps the most multilevel activity.  All beginning letters, including the common single consonants and the less common, more complex digraphs and blends, are reviewed each time the teacher distributes the onset cards.  Phonemic awareness is developed as children say all the rhyming words and blend the vowel pattern with the beginning letters.  Children whose word awareness is more sophisticated learn that there are often two spellings for the long vowel patterns and develop their visual checking sense as they see the rhyming words with the different patterns written on the same chart.  They also learn the correct spelling for many of the common homophones.  The addition of some longer rhyming words helps them learn how to decode and spell longer words and allows them to write more interesting rhymes." (From the Four Blocks website at Wake Forest University.)  Below are some of the rhymes the students came up with based on the words we made.