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Word Recognition
Students recognize and spell color and shape words. In this color and shape words lesson plan, students reinforce their vocabulary and spelling skills.
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Scrambled Eggs Super!
Students study rhythm and rhyme. In this rhyming lesson, students read Scrambled Eggs Super! by Dr. Seuss. Students explore the rhythm of rhyming words found in the book. The students decorate eggs and place rhyming words inside to use...
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Phonemic Awareness through Music
Students listen to a song and identify the rhyming words. After listening to the song, Down By the Bay by Raffi, students identify at least 5 rhyming sets of words
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Phonological Awareness and Rhyming
Students listen to a story and chime whenever they hear rhyming word pairs. Students generate other rhyming words that rhyme with each pair from the story. Students draw and/or paint illustrations to go along with a rhyming song given....
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Long Train: 101 Cars on the Track Lesson Plan
Students practice counting, measuring, and predicting. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify numbers 1-101, rhyming words, and repetitive words using Long Train by Sam Williams. Students build their recall skills by...
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Animated Alphabet
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...
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You've Got a Wocket Where?
Students identify rhyming word pairs, apply generalizations about the principle of onsets and "rimes," and create and classify multiple lists of words, both real and nonsense, based on given rhymes.
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Cool Cats Counting
Students practice number sense with the book Cool Cats Counting by Sherry Shahan. In this number lesson, students listen to the book and count from 1-10 in English and Spanish. They practice their alphabet, rhyming words, and more.
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Letter/Word Recognition Activity Sheet
In this letter recognition worksheet, students name the given letters and practice their sounds. Students also read the five given sentences and say six sight words.
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Mice Squeak; We Speak
Students create a poster. In this vocabulary instructional activity, students use vocabulary words such as squeak, creak, squeal, squawk and quack to identify the sounds and noises of each word. Students come up with rhyming words and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Look at Us!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)
Start off your young English language learners with this packet of materials, which covers three weeks of instructions. After completing the unit, kids will have practiced the letters K through Z, read several story books, talked with...
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Sheep in a Jeep Lesson
Students are read the book "Sheep in a Jeep" focusing on the vocabulary. They create a rhyme chart and a class rhyming book. They share their illustrations with the class.
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Ugly Bug/Snuggly Bug
Students demonstrate an understanding of rhyming words by creating buggy pictures and a sentence containing rhyming words. They listen to the story, 'Creepy Beetles,' then engage in an activity where they identify the rhyming words.
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Inspire a Life of Reading
Making letters out of goop, sight word bingo, tic-tac-toe vowels. Download this packet loaded with activities designed to engage beginning readers. Although designed for adults, many of the activities are appropriate for any age group.
Harper Collins
The Giving Tree Anniversary Teaching Guide
Celebrate poetry month all of April with a guide that uses six of Shel Silverstein's most famous books as a basis for the lessons. Discussion questions and writing activities are provided for each of Silverstein's books.
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Scrambled Eggs Super!
Students explore the concept of rhyming words. In this rhyming word lesson plan, students decorate eggs and place words inside the eggs. Students use the eggs to play a rhyming word concentration game.
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Where is the Pet?
Students identify rhyming words and explore the usage of spatial words. In this Where Is The Pet lesson, students listen to a poem, repeat the rhymes within the poem, list various of additional rhyming words that can replace the words in...
BBC
The Cream Cake Mystery - Seeing Patterns
A great language arts lesson designed for emerging readers awaits your class. Rhyming words are the focus. Learners play an interactive learning game on the computer that helps them to understand words that rhyme. As with all of these...
Scholastic
Dr. Seuss Extension Activities
Extend the exhilarating learning experience of Dr. Seuss with five activities designed to reinforce literacy skills—site word reading, dialogue writing, story mapping, and more! Featured stories include The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, The...
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Mary Had a Little Lamb
Students examine the story Mary Had a Little Lamb. In this language arts lesson, students discuss the story and read companion poems. Students identify the rhyming words in the story. Students discuss lambs and sheep.
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Tiny Tortillas
Pupils read the rhyme "Tiny Tortillas" and then explain what the poem is about. They create a list of rhyming words from the poem. They compare and contrast the poem "Tiny Tortillas" with the poem "Patty Cake". They clap out the beat to...
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Ten Red Apples; The Five Senses
A clever lesson plan designed around an apple awaits your learners. Descriptive words are used to explain what they believe is inside a bag while using their five senses. Learners read the story The Apple Pie Tree and are introduced to...
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Sneetches: Diversity of Learners
For Learners wanting to practice verbal/linguistic intelligence, any Dr. Seuss book is an excellent text for examining rhyming words. They explore words that rhyme with bully, mean, snooty, nasty, tease, harass, hurt.
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What words sound like rice?
Students experiment with sounds of words. In this word comparison lesson plan, students complete a series of games to assist them in hearing and sounding out the letters in the word rice. Students use this information to find or think...