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From Syllable Counting and Similes to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, find teacher approved counting syllables lesson plans that inspire student learning.
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Students participate in a syllable counting activity, examine similes, and read and discuss a poem. They count the syllables for a list of words, then write a simile and draw a picture to describe being happy or sad. As a class they read the poem "Washing" and act out the poem while reciting it.
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- Kindergarten Grade
Students participate in a syllable counting and phonics activity and write a letter. They count syllables using the technique of saying each word without moving their lips, and trace and write the letter t. Students also continue discussing Aesop's "The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse" fable, and develop a list of attributes of their own city.
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- Kindergarten Grade
Students listen to a word the teacher says and echo the word while putting their hand under their chin with their palm facing towards the floor. They tell how many times their hand moved when repeating the word to count the number of syllables.
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- 1st Grade
Students observe and demonstate how to count the number of syllables in a word. They discuss how a syllable is one opening of the mouth, then repeat a list of words with their hands cupped under their chins. Students count how many times their mouth opens to determine how many syllables each word contains.
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- Kindergarten Grade
Students manipulate and count syllables. In this hands-on, phonemic awareness lesson, students use chips to represent syllables and count them, then change their order to create a new word.
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- Kindergarten Grade
Students participate in a syllable segmentation activity and read and act out a poem. They use their fist as a hammer to pount out the number of syllables in a variety of words, create a -ch page for their dictionary, and read and act out the poem "The Quarrel."
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- Kindergarten - 5th Grade
Students play word games including "Count The Words", "Clapping Syllables", "Oral Word Segmentation", "Representing Phonemes", and "Say that Word Again..." in this Language Arts lesson. The games range in ability level from pre-Kindergarten through 5th grade.
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- 2nd - 3rd Grade
Students identify the number of syllables in a word. They count the beats in a word and realize that one beat -words are shorter than three beat words.
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- 4th - 6th Grade
Students write two haiku poems in appropriate form. Writing haiku allows students to practice in the skills of dividing words into syllables, counting syllables, and searching for words to fit a structure.
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- 2nd Grade
Students complete the first column of a KWL chart with information that they know about caterpillars. They listen to a read aloud of Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, while focusing on what caterpillars eat. They clap out syllables for the words that associated with the lesson.
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