Rhyming Lesson Plans

Sixth graders examine a wide variety of poetry, poetic language, and messages. They choose a poem to analyze and orally present to the class as their assessment on this unit.

Students review rhyming words in the phonemic awareness section of the literacy block. They write letters as the teacher says them. In the fluency section, they recite poems and nursery rhymes and finally, listen to a teacher read aloud.

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.

First graders experience quarter and eighth notes through song and rhyme and chant repertoire, and use appropriate rhythm syllables to identify and demonstrate quarter and eighth notes.

Young scholars explore the nursery rhyme, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." For this rhyming lesson, students read the book Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and identify the rhyming words in the text. Young scholars create a "star glyph."

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?"

Read the story, Green Eggs and Ham, to practice phonemic awareness, rhyming, and writing skills with emerging readers. They will match oral words to printed words, create a graphic organizer, and the use rhyming words in an original composition. This lesson includes web links, writing rubric, materials list, and suggestion interventions for young scholars who need extra support.

First graders learn quarter and eighth notes through rhyme and chants. In this rhythm instructional activity, 1st graders sing folk songs or chants while performing beat motions. Students learn quarter and eighth note rhythms and practice singing that rhythm.

Students use phonics, the alphabet, alphabetic principles to read and comprehend text. They use picture and visual clues. Students recognize sight words and they comprehend literal meaning from text. Students work with rhyming riddles and they practice writing the letter f.

Students analyze poetry. In this ESL lesson, students find the rhyming words in a poem and answer who, what, when, where and why questions in order to have better comprehension. They then write their own rhyming poem with four lines.