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Harper Collins

The Giving Tree Anniversary Teaching Guide

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
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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Curriculum Corner

Valentine Math and Literacy Practice

For Students K - 1st Standards
Looking for math and literacy practice with a Valentine's Day theme? Look no more, because this 43-page packet is filled with practice pages intended to reinforce basic math, reading, and writing skills. From counting to writing words to...
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Rhyme Charades

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a game called "Rhyme Charades." The teacher thinks of a word to begin the charades game giving the clue "my word rhymes with ...". The students who have a guess stand in the middle of the circle and pantomine...
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Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat

For Students Pre-K - K
In this rhyme instructional activity, students read a nursery rhyme about a cat. Students also color in an illustration and cut out rhyming words from the story.
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African American Poetry: Family and Traditions

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners are introduced to the elements of African-American poetry. As a class, they are read different types of poems to discover there are different styles of poems and practice rhyming words. They share information on their family...
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Shape Monster

For Students Pre-K - K
In this shapes worksheet, students read a rhyming poem about shapes. Shapes include triangle, circle, oval, square, and rectangle.
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Mother's Day Rhymes and Song

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students memorize a rhyme or a song to present to their mothers for Mother's Day. In this rhyming and songs lesson, students memorize 1 rhyme or song, but they have 4 rhymes and 4 songs to choose from.
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Growing Gold

For Teachers K - 1st
Students read and explore a folktale from India. In this folktale instructional activity, students read the book Growing Gold and discuss the events from the tale. Students complete a phonics worksheet which incorporates the rhyming...
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Lesson 3: Tells a Story

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergartners listen to a nursery rhyme and then tell the story in their own words (without rhyming). They practice as a class using Jack and Jill and then try Three Blind Mice on their own. The lesson includes a worksheet for the...
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Short "a" Vowel Cards

For Students K - 1st
In this recognizing short "a" vowel sounds activity, students cut out the penguin with short "a" word cards, practice reading the words, and match the short "a" rhyming words. Students complete fifteen word card activities.
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Rhyming

For Teachers K
Students comprehend the basic language concept. They create as a class the word family for hat. They are told that they are going to see how many words they can come up with that rhyme with hat. Students are asked to come up with a...
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What words sound like rice?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students experiment with sounds of words. In this word comparison lesson, 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...
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Rhyme Time

For Teachers K
Students discover rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson, students read A Giraffe and a Half. Students examine rhyming words from the story. Working in small groups, students create rhymes in response to a prompt from the teacher.
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Rhyme Game

For Teachers K
Students match rhyming picture cards. They use a musical timer and each student has the opportunity to show his or her card to the class. They must match them and show them to the teacher.
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Rhyme Time

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore phonemes through rhymes. They discuss nursery rhymes and rhyming words. Students read "Jack and Jill" and discuss the rhyming words in the nursery rhyme. They play a rhyming game and identify words that rhyme.
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Chrysanthemum Sound Boards

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen and match sounds such as rhyming, beginning, ending and vowel sounds to build phonemic awareness.
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Rhyme at Circle Time

For Teachers K
Students study the importance of clean hands and practice the literacy skills of listening, matching, auditory discrimination, vocabulary, and rhyming. They illustrate their rhyme chart with drawings or photos taken doing the different...
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Gingerbread Baby

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore gingerbread stories. For this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Students also make art projects, dramatize the stories,...
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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners prepare for school and relieve anxiety they might be experiencing in regards to beginning school. In this Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten lesson plan, students develop listening skills, produce rhyming words, and...
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K12 Reader

Christmas Rhymes

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
What better way for children to celebrate the holiday season than by practicing their phonemic awareness skills? Presenting young readers with a series of eight Christmas-themed words, this instructional activity asks them to circle...
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Vocabulary Pictures and Words

For Teachers K - 1st
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read 19 words ending in "unk," such as punk, junk, and skunk. 12 of the words are illustrated.
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Sam I Am

For Students K - 2nd
In this recognizing words that rhyme with am worksheet, students write the beginning, middle, or ending of the partial words provided and color the picture. Students fill in 9 blanks.
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Kelly's Kindergarten

Kelly's Kindergarten: Short /u/ Sound Words

For Students K - 1st Standards
From hugs to the sun, you can find many great words with the short /u/ sound! Your youngsters will do just that with this learning exercise, in which they identify words with the short /u/ sound from a selection of provided images, and...
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Run, Bug, Run!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Now, why would a bug be on the run? Your kids can find out by putting together and reading this cute (and slightly silly) mini book.

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