Rhyme Lesson Plans

Help learners examine rhyming words through a number of activities including using picture cards and visiting rhyming sites on the Internet. They listen to a read aloud of a book that contains rhyming words and dictate a sentence that includes rhyme.

Students use an Inspiration template to brainstorm and record as many rhyming words as possible in designated amount of time. Then, students compare their results scoring points for unique responses. This activity could be easily adapted for use with synonyms, homonyms, or antonyms.

Learners retell a nursery rhyme updating it and create a video.  In this Movie Maker nursery rhyme lesson, students  use technology to update a nursery rhyme.  Learners incorporate special effects, actions, and captured video.

Students practice working with rhymes in groups to create wanted posters for rhyming words utilizing Publisher to assist them. They recognize words that rhyme and identify words that rhyme and show examples of rhyming words from the story, "Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?"

Students explore rhyming. In this rhyming lesson, students recognize rhyme, match pictures that rhyme, and produce words that rhyme. Students clap out rhymes and read poems that rhyme. In groups, students do a picture sort for rhyming words.

Explore rhyming in this phonemic awareness and French lesson plan. Listen to the poem "J'Adore la Pizza" by Karen Kransky and identify rhyming words. Compare grapheme spelling patterns with like phonemes, and sort word cards according to rhyming patterns. Finally, complete a related worksheet.

Engage your class in a game where they look for matching rhymes. They will flip over cards and look for rhyming words. If the words match they keep the cards. If they words do not match they turn the cards over. Additionally, they will watch the other players to determine if they answers are correct or incorrect. This game is similar to Memory, only replaced with rhyming words.

First graders understand why words rhyme and how to form rhyming words. In this rhyming and phonics lesson, 1st graders complete a worksheet to show words that are spelled as they sound and not spelled as they sound.

Students create rhyming words. For this vocabulary lesson, students learn what a rhyme is. They learn the song The Rhyme and talk about the rhyming words they heard. Students think of rhymes for their own name.

First graders write rhymes. In this lesson students listen to The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss and listen for rhyming words. Students write their own rhymes using the computer. Students are also given a list of words to choose from and two rhymes with missing words. They are to use the word list to complete the blank rhymes.