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This activity focuses on helping preschool students hear and identify words that rhyme with the -air sound. Use the assessment pages to quickly check each child's listening and rhyme-matching ability. For groups, play a short listening game first: say a word aloud and have children give a thumbs-up if it rhymes with -air or a thumbs-down if it does not. Prepare picture cards for each word (air, fair, hair, lair, pair, chair) and a few non-rhyming pictures (cat, book) to use during the sorting and matching tasks. For the two open-ended multimedia prompts, look for responses that show students can hear and produce rhyming words. High-quality answers for the voice prompt will include the child clearly saying at least two words that rhyme with -air (e.g., “hair, chair”). High-quality photo or drawing responses will show the child selecting or drawing items that rhyme with -air and be able to point to or label at least one matching pair. Use simple correct/incorrect scoring: mark correct if the child demonstrates the rhyme pattern consistently and incorrect if they cannot identify or produce rhyming examples after a brief prompt.