Select a kid-friendly text--a poem or song--with rhyming words. Read or listen to the poem or song. Multiple readings or listening encourages the child to read or sing along and develop a sense of what rhyming words feel like in her speech muscles. Pull rhyming words from the selected text and exchange rhyming words with the child; either you or the child can lead. For example, the first person says, "child" and the second person responds, "wild." Continue exchanging rhyming words for five minutes. Including a ball or some other toy to toss back and forth introduces a tactile element and can reinforce the rhythm of the game.
Read a book to the child. Ask the child to choose a sentence, or several, from the book and copy them down onto a strip of paper. Help the child to include appropriate capitalization and punctuation. Segment the sentence into words by cutting the strip into individual words, include whatever punctuation is closest to a word with that word. Ask the child to reassemble the sentence, like a puzzle, and then to read it out loud.
Choose a group of words, a word family, to examine in detail with the child. Work on orally blending sounds: the beginning sound and common "chunks" of words. For example the words kit, bit, sit, hit, pit each have a common chunk, "it," and different beginning sounds.